How To Install apachetop on CentOS 8

apachetop is A top-like display of Apache logs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apachetop on CentOS 8.

What is apachetop

ApacheTop watches a logfile generated by Apache (in standard common or combined logformat, although it doesn’t (yet) make use of any of the extra fields in combined) and generates human-parsable output in realtime.

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

Install apachetop on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install apachetop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install apachetop

Install apachetop on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install apachetop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install apachetop

How To Uninstall apachetop on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove apachetop

apachetop Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/apachetop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/6e3b2e721ba04770f5ece4170cfb9b510b51af
/usr/share/doc/apachetop
/usr/share/doc/apachetop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/apachetop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/apachetop/README
/usr/share/licenses/apachetop
/usr/share/licenses/apachetop/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/apachetop.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apachetop on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.