How To Install rrdtool.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. rrdtool.i686 is Round Robin Database Tool to store and display time-series data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is rrdtool.i686

RRD is the Acronym for Round Robin Database. RRD is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average). It stores the data in a very compact way that will not expand over time, and it presents useful graphs by processing the data to enforce a certain data density. It can be used either via simple wrapper scripts (from shell or Perl) or via frontends that poll network devices and put a friendly user interface on it.

We can use yum to install rrdtool.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rrdtool.i686.

Install rrdtool.i686 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.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rrdtool.i686

How To Uninstall rrdtool.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the rrdtool.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove rrdtool.i686

rrdtool.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/rrdcached
/usr/bin/rrdcgi
/usr/bin/rrdcreate
/usr/bin/rrdinfo
/usr/bin/rrdtool
/usr/bin/rrdupdate
/usr/lib/librrd.so.4
/usr/lib/librrd.so.4.2.1
/usr/lib/librrd_th.so.4
/usr/lib/librrd_th.so.4.2.1
/usr/share/man/man1/bin_dec_hex.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cdeftutorial.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpntutorial.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrd-beginners.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdbuild.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdcached.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdcgi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdcreate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrddump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdfetch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdfirst.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdflushcached.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdgraph.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdgraph_data.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdgraph_examples.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdgraph_graph.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdgraph_rpn.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdlast.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdlastupdate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdlua.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdresize.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdrestore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdthreads.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdtool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdtune.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdtutorial.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdupdate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rrdxport.1.gz
/usr/share/rrdtool

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.