How To Install collectd-utils on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-utils on CentOS 8.
What is collectd-utils
Collectd utilities
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-utils on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-utils.
Install collectd-utils 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-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-utils
Install collectd-utils 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-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-utils
How To Uninstall collectd-utils on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the collectd-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-utils
collectd-utils Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/collectd-nagios
/usr/bin/collectd-tg
/usr/bin/collectdctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/2707d01b49369ff30ba02e86148f9dfc149088
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/92a1eb306ac75fb3825310f6f86e4747d2e03d
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/949e050375bde7b40dccd90e705182b08588cf
/usr/share/man/man1/collectd-nagios.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/collectd-tg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/collectdctl.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-utils on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.