How To Install collectd-amqp on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-amqp on CentOS 8.
What is collectd-amqp
This plugin can be used to communicate with other instances of collectd or third party applications using an AMQP message broker.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-amqp on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-amqp.
Install collectd-amqp 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 collectd-amqp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-amqp
Install collectd-amqp 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 collectd-amqp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-amqp
How To Uninstall collectd-amqp on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the collectd-amqp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-amqp
collectd-amqp Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/e15755bb32ea89ce77d75c323cb2a7160311d6
/usr/lib64/collectd/amqp.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-amqp on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.