How To Install rrdtool-tcl on CentOS 8

rrdtool-tcl is Tcl RRDtool bindings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool-tcl on CentOS 8.

What is rrdtool-tcl

The rrdtool-tcl package includes RRDtool bindings for Tcl.

We can use yum or dnf to install rrdtool-tcl on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rrdtool-tcl.

Install rrdtool-tcl 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-tcl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rrdtool-tcl

Install rrdtool-tcl 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-tcl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rrdtool-tcl

How To Uninstall rrdtool-tcl on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the rrdtool-tcl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rrdtool-tcl

rrdtool-tcl Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/cba65e23f033fff10a5d3d19b6f9b97c8bd14a
/usr/lib64/rrdtool/ifOctets.tcl
/usr/lib64/rrdtool/pkgIndex.tcl
/usr/lib64/tclrrd1.7.0.so
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-tcl
/usr/share/doc/rrdtool-tcl/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rrdtool-tcl on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.