How To Install collectd-netlink on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-netlink in Fedora 36. collectd-netlink is Netlink plugin for collectd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-netlink on Fedora 36.

This plugin uses a netlink socket to query the Linux kernel about statistics of various interface and routing aspects.

We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-netlink on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-netlink.

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install collectd-netlink

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install collectd-netlink using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install collectd-netlink

To uninstall only the collectd-netlink package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove collectd-netlink

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/822879e250ec47452ee4df68ea55b85180a411
/usr/lib64/collectd/netlink.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-netlink on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).