How To Install ksystemlog on CentOS 8
ksystemlog is System Log Viewer for KDE
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ksystemlog on CentOS 8.
What is ksystemlog
This program is developed for beginner users, who don’t know how to find information about their Linux system, and don’t know where log files are. It is also of course designed for advanced users, who quickly want to understand problems of their machine with a more powerful and graphical tool than tail -f and less commands.
We can use yum or dnf to install ksystemlog on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ksystemlog.
Install ksystemlog 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 ksystemlog using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ksystemlog
Install ksystemlog 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 ksystemlog using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ksystemlog
How To Uninstall ksystemlog on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ksystemlog package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ksystemlog
ksystemlog Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/ksystemlog
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/d1a898facadd8c6ceec41ad6603ae8025f79f5
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.ksystemlog.desktop
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/ksystemlog/filter-process.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/ksystemlog/first-opening.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ksystemlog/filter-process.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ksystemlog/first-opening.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ksystemlog/main-screen.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/filter-process.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/first-opening.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/main-screen.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ksystemlog/filter-process.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ksystemlog/first-opening.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ksystemlog/main-screen.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ksystemlog/filter-process.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ksystemlog/first-opening.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ksystemlog/main-screen.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ksystemlog/filter-process.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ksystemlog/first-opening.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ksystemlog/main-screen.png
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/ksystemlog
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/ksystemlog/ksystemlogui.rc
/usr/share/licenses/ksystemlog
/usr/share/licenses/ksystemlog/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ksystemlog.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.ksystemlog.appdata.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ksystemlog on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.