How To Install flow-tools on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flow-tools on CentOS 7.
What is flow-tools
Flow-tools is library and a collection of programs used to collect, send, process, and generate reports from NetFlow data. The tools can be used together on a single server or distributed to multiple servers for large deployments. The flow-toools library provides an API for development of custom applications for NetFlow export versions 1,5,6 and the 14 currently defined version 8 subversions. A Perl and Python interface have been contributed and are included in the distribution.
We can use yum or dnf to install flow-tools on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flow-tools.
Install flow-tools on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install flow-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flow-tools
Install flow-tools 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 flow-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flow-tools
How To Uninstall flow-tools on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the flow-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flow-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flow-tools on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
