How To Install collectd-lua on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-lua on CentOS 7.
What is collectd-lua
The Lua plugin embeds a Lua interpreter into collectd and exposes the application programming interface (API) to Lua scripts.
We can use yum or dnf to install collectd-lua on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install collectd-lua.
Install collectd-lua on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install collectd-lua using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install collectd-lua
Install collectd-lua 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 collectd-lua using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install collectd-lua
How To Uninstall collectd-lua on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the collectd-lua package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove collectd-lua
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install collectd-lua on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
