How To Install ifstat on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ifstat on Rocky Linux 8. ifstat is Interface statistics

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ifstat on Rocky Linux 8.

What is ifstat

ifstat(1) is a little tool to report interface activity like vmstat/iostat do. In addition, ifstat can poll remote hosts through SNMP if you have the ucd-snmp library. It will also be used for localhost if no other known method works (You need to have snmpd running for this though).

We can use yum or dnf to install ifstat on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ifstat.

Install ifstat on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ifstat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ifstat

Install ifstat on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ifstat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ifstat

How To Uninstall ifstat on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the ifstat package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ifstat

ifstat Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/ifstat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/16ede625aa57b8f0be613c66a538f66b79f502
/usr/share/doc/ifstat
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/README
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/ifstat.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ifstat on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.