How To Install metrics2mqtt on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install metrics2mqtt in Fedora 36. metrics2mqtt is Publish system performance metrics to a MQTT broker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install metrics2mqtt on Fedora 36.

What is metrics2mqtt

metrics2mqtt is a lightweight wrapper around psutil that publishes CPU utilization, free memory, and other system-level stats to a MQTT broker.

We can use yum or dnf to install metrics2mqtt on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install metrics2mqtt.

Install metrics2mqtt 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 metrics2mqtt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install metrics2mqtt

Install metrics2mqtt 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 metrics2mqtt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install metrics2mqtt

How To Uninstall metrics2mqtt on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the metrics2mqtt package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove metrics2mqtt

metrics2mqtt Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/metrics2mqtt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install metrics2mqtt on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).