How To Install ksysguardd on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ksysguardd on CentOS 8.
What is ksysguardd
Performance monitor daemon.
We can use yum or dnf to install ksysguardd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ksysguardd.
Install ksysguardd 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 ksysguardd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ksysguardd
Install ksysguardd 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 ksysguardd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ksysguardd
How To Uninstall ksysguardd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ksysguardd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ksysguardd
ksysguardd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/ksysguarddrc
/usr/bin/ksysguardd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/6b075ea68d5923b6877c646f577614a1061699
/usr/share/licenses/ksysguardd
/usr/share/licenses/ksysguardd/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ksysguardd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.