How To Install rrdtool-ruby.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool-ruby.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rrdtool-ruby.x86_64 is Ruby RRDtool bindings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool-ruby.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `rrdtool-ruby.x86_64`

The rrdtool-ruby package includes RRDtool bindings for Ruby.

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

Install rrdtool-ruby.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 rrdtool-ruby.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rrdtool-ruby.x86_64

How To Uninstall rrdtool-ruby.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the rrdtool-ruby.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove rrdtool-ruby.x86_64

rrdtool-ruby.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/RRD.so
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-ruby-1.4.8
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-ruby-1.4.8/README

References

rrdtool-ruby.x86_64 website

Summary

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