How To Install collectd-rrdtool on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-rrdtool on CentOS 8.
What is collectd-rrdtool
This plugin for collectd provides rrdtool support.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-rrdtool on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-rrdtool.
Install collectd-rrdtool 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-rrdtool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-rrdtool
Install collectd-rrdtool 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-rrdtool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-rrdtool
How To Uninstall collectd-rrdtool on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the collectd-rrdtool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-rrdtool
collectd-rrdtool Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/collectd.d/rrdtool.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/86410585d0558ac3b756704381def7be3c21a2
/usr/lib64/collectd/rrdtool.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-rrdtool on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.