How To Install rrdtool-doc on CentOS 8
rrdtool-doc is RRDtool documentation
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool-doc on CentOS 8.
What is rrdtool-doc
RRD is the Acronym for Round Robin Database. RRD is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average). This package contains documentation on using RRD.
We can use yum or dnf to install rrdtool-doc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rrdtool-doc.
Install rrdtool-doc 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 rrdtool-doc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rrdtool-doc
Install rrdtool-doc 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 rrdtool-doc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rrdtool-doc
How To Uninstall rrdtool-doc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rrdtool-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rrdtool-doc
rrdtool-doc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/4charts.pl
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/bigtops.pl
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/cgi-demo.cgi
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/minmax.pl
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/perftest.pl
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/piped-demo.pl
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/rrdcached
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/rrdcached/RRDCached.pm
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/rrdcached/rrdcached-size.pl
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/shared-demo.pl
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/stripes.pl
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/examples/stripes.py
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/bin_dec_hex.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/cdeftutorial.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/librrd.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rpntutorial.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrd-beginners.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdbuild.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdcached.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdcgi.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdcreate.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrddump.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdfetch.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdfirst.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdflushcached.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdgraph.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdgraph_data.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdgraph_examples.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdgraph_graph.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdgraph_rpn.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdinfo.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdlast.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdlastupdate.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdlist.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdlua.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdresize.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdrestore.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdthreads.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdtool.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdtune.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdtutorial.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdupdate.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/html/rrdxport.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/bin_dec_hex.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/cdeftutorial.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/librrd.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rpntutorial.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrd-beginners.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdbuild.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdcached.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdcgi.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdcreate.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrddump.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdfetch.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdfirst.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdflushcached.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdgraph.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdgraph_data.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdgraph_examples.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdgraph_graph.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdgraph_rpn.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdinfo.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdlast.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdlastupdate.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdlist.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdlua.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdresize.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdrestore.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdthreads.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdtool.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdtune.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdtutorial.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdupdate.txt
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-doc/txt/rrdxport.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool-doc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.