How To Install collectd-rrdcached on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-rrdcached on CentOS 8.
What is collectd-rrdcached
This plugin uses the RRDtool accelerator daemon, rrdcached(1), to store values to RRD files in an efficient manner.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-rrdcached on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-rrdcached.
Install collectd-rrdcached 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-rrdcached using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-rrdcached
Install collectd-rrdcached 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-rrdcached using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-rrdcached
How To Uninstall collectd-rrdcached on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the collectd-rrdcached package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-rrdcached
collectd-rrdcached Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/47e1c55b88c91da843e9d6d7802645cd66da17
/usr/lib64/collectd/rrdcached.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-rrdcached on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.