How To Install rrdtool-perl on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool-perl on CentOS 8.
What is rrdtool-perl
The Perl RRDtool bindings
We can use yum or dnf to install rrdtool-perl on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rrdtool-perl.
Install rrdtool-perl 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-perl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rrdtool-perl
Install rrdtool-perl 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-perl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rrdtool-perl
How To Uninstall rrdtool-perl on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rrdtool-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rrdtool-perl
rrdtool-perl Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/7487744e2d15f57e82aaa81ac40c949f1a1c29
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/RRDp.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/RRDs.pm
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/RRDs
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/RRDs/RRDs.so
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-perl
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-perl/html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-perl/html/RRDp.html
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-perl/html/RRDs.html
/usr/share/man/man3/RRDp.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/RRDs.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/librrd.3.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool-perl on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.