How To Install cacti on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cacti on CentOS 7.
What is cacti
Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool. It stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven.
We can use yum or dnf to install cacti on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cacti.
Install cacti on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install cacti using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cacti
Install cacti on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install cacti using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cacti
How To Uninstall cacti on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cacti package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cacti
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cacti on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
