How To Install recap on Fedora 34

recap is Generates reports of various system information

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install recap on Fedora 34.

What is recap

This program is intended to be used as a companion for the reporting provided by sysstat. It will create a set of reports summarizing hardware resource utilization. The script also provides optional reporting on Apache, MySQL, and network connections.

We can use yum or dnf to install recap on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install recap.

Install recap on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install recap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install recap

Install recap on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install recap using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install recap

How To Uninstall recap on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the recap package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove recap

recap Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/recap.conf
/usr/lib/recap/core/fdisk
/usr/lib/recap/core/mysql
/usr/lib/recap/core/netstat
/usr/lib/recap/core/ps
/usr/lib/recap/core/pstree
/usr/lib/recap/core/resources
/usr/lib/recap/core/send_mail
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-available/docker_top
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-available/http_status
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-available/kernel_cmd
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-available/redis
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-available/system_locks
/usr/lib/recap/plugins-enabled
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recap-onboot.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recap-onboot.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recap.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recap.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recaplog.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/recaplog.timer
/usr/sbin/recap
/usr/sbin/recaplog
/usr/sbin/recaptool
/usr/share/doc/recap
/usr/share/doc/recap/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/recap/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/recap
/usr/share/licenses/recap/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/recap.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/recap.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/recaplog.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/recaptool.8.gz
/var/log/recap
/var/log/recap/backups
/var/log/recap/snapshots

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install recap on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.