How To Install cacti-spine on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cacti-spine on Rocky Linux 8. cacti-spine is Threaded poller for Cacti written in C

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cacti-spine on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `cacti-spine`

Spine is a supplemental poller for Cacti that makes use of pthreads to achieve excellent performance.

We can use yum or dnf to install cacti-spine on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cacti-spine.

Install cacti-spine on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install cacti-spine

Install cacti-spine on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install cacti-spine

How To Uninstall cacti-spine on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the cacti-spine package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cacti-spine

cacti-spine Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/spine.conf
/usr/bin/spine
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/bb86336f44e63d3a9879247a4bcb0730bedfe0
/usr/share/doc/cacti-spine
/usr/share/doc/cacti-spine/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/cacti-spine/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cacti-spine
/usr/share/licenses/cacti-spine/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/spine.1.gz

References

cacti-spine website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cacti-spine on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.