How To Install ifstat on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifstat on CentOS 8.
What is ifstat
ifstat(1) is a little tool to report interface activity like vmstat/iostat do. In addition, ifstat can poll remote hosts through SNMP if you have the ucd-snmp library. It will also be used for localhost if no other known method works (You need to have snmpd running for this though).
We can use yum or dnf to install ifstat on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ifstat.
Install ifstat 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 ifstat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ifstat
Install ifstat 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 ifstat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ifstat
How To Uninstall ifstat on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ifstat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ifstat
ifstat Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/ifstat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/16ede625aa57b8f0be613c66a538f66b79f502
/usr/share/doc/ifstat
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/README
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/ifstat.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifstat on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.