How To Install statgrab on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install statgrab on Fedora 34.
What is statgrab
Statgrab gives a sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything else that can’t easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is a script to generate an MRTG configuration file to use statgrab.
We can use yum or dnf to install statgrab on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install statgrab.
Install statgrab 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 statgrab using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install statgrab
Install statgrab 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 statgrab using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install statgrab
How To Uninstall statgrab on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the statgrab package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove statgrab
statgrab Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/statgrab.properties
/usr/bin/statgrab
/usr/bin/statgrab-make-mrtg-config
/usr/bin/statgrab-make-mrtg-index
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/aac50e94d6e5bbc56f396a011792ecbfe59f44
/usr/share/licenses/statgrab
/usr/share/licenses/statgrab/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/statgrab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libstatgrab.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/statgrab.3.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install statgrab on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
