How To Install pcp-monitor.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-monitor.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcp-monitor.x86_64 is Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) Monitoring meta Package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-monitor.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `pcp-monitor.x86_64`

This meta-package contains the PCP performance monitoring dependencies. This includes a large number of packages for analysing PCP metrics in various ways.

We can use yum to install pcp-monitor.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcp-monitor.x86_64.

Install pcp-monitor.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install pcp-monitor.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcp-monitor.x86_64

How To Uninstall pcp-monitor.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pcp-monitor.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pcp-monitor.x86_64

pcp-monitor.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

References

pcp-monitor.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-monitor.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.