How To Install collectd-java on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-java on Rocky Linux 8. collectd-java is Java bindings for collectd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-java on Rocky Linux 8.

What is collectd-java

These are the Java bindings for collectd.

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

Install collectd-java 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 collectd-java using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install collectd-java

Install collectd-java 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 collectd-java using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install collectd-java

How To Uninstall collectd-java on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove collectd-java

collectd-java Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/8318abb2cf40e366f83a06c57de52d7fd3abd5
/usr/lib64/collectd/java.so
/usr/share/collectd/java
/usr/share/collectd/java/collectd-api.jar
/usr/share/man/man5/collectd-java.5.gz

References

Summary

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