How To Install flow-tools-rrdtool on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flow-tools-rrdtool
on Fedora 36.
What is flow-tools-rrdtool
Flow-tools is library and a collection of programs used to collect, send, process, and generate reports from NetFlow data. The tools can be used together on a single server or distributed to multiple servers for large deployments. The flow-toools library provides an API for development of custom applications for NetFlow export versions 1,5,6 and the 14 currently defined version 8 subversions. A Perl and Python interface have been contributed and are included in the distribution. This package contains scripts that use python-rrdtool to create rrds and graphs from flow data.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install flow-tools-rrdtool
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flow-tools-rrdtool.
Install flow-tools-rrdtool on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install flow-tools-rrdtool
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flow-tools-rrdtool
Install flow-tools-rrdtool on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install flow-tools-rrdtool
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flow-tools-rrdtool
How To Uninstall flow-tools-rrdtool on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the flow-tools-rrdtool
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flow-tools-rrdtool
flow-tools-rrdtool Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/flow-log2rrd
/usr/bin/flow-rpt2rrd
/usr/share/man/man1/flow-log2rrd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/flow-rpt2rrd.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flow-tools-rrdtool
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).