How To Install rrdtool.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is rrdtool.x86_64
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.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.x86_64.
Install rrdtool.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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rrdtool.x86_64
How To Uninstall rrdtool.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the rrdtool.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove rrdtool.x86_64
rrdtool.x86_64 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/lib64/librrd.so.4
/usr/lib64/librrd.so.4.2.1
/usr/lib64/librrd_th.so.4
/usr/lib64/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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.