How To Install ifstat on Rocky Linux 8
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.