How To Install peripety on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install peripety on Rocky Linux 8. peripety is Storage event notification daemon

Introduction

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

What is peripety

Peripety is designed to parse system storage logging into structured storage event helping user investigate storage issues.

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

Install peripety 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 peripety using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install peripety

Install peripety 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 peripety using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install peripety

How To Uninstall peripety on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove peripety

peripety Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/peripetyd.conf
/usr/bin/peripetyd
/usr/bin/prpt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/e4e7005eb90542a61078fdde5762e6a4f65664
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/76dc1ae00129885ecf15f5149394bbe28dc1d8
/usr/lib/systemd/system/peripetyd.service
/usr/share/man/man1/prpt.1.gz

References

Summary

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