How To Install apcupsd-cgi on CentOS 8

apcupsd-cgi is Web interface for apcupsd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apcupsd-cgi on CentOS 8.

What is apcupsd-cgi

A CGI interface to the APC UPS monitoring daemon.

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

Install apcupsd-cgi 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 apcupsd-cgi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install apcupsd-cgi

Install apcupsd-cgi 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 apcupsd-cgi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install apcupsd-cgi

How To Uninstall apcupsd-cgi on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the apcupsd-cgi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove apcupsd-cgi

apcupsd-cgi Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.css
/etc/apcupsd/hosts.conf
/etc/apcupsd/multimon.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d/apcupsd.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/ac6251c453265a98054bf5a2ec83603c220915
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/ee3825cfdb1c3b8409c5cdb207b0dce95f0ebc
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/5301c1dc9715eddd6532d452f97078864891fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/3db8ac2288f875704557cb442a3b9b607ad4ac
/var/www/apcupsd
/var/www/apcupsd/multimon.cgi
/var/www/apcupsd/upsfstats.cgi
/var/www/apcupsd/upsimage.cgi
/var/www/apcupsd/upsstats.cgi

References

Summary

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