How To Install flow-tools-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flow-tools-devel on CentOS 7.
What is flow-tools-devel
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. This package contains header files required to build applications that use libft.
We can use yum or dnf to install flow-tools-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flow-tools-devel.
Install flow-tools-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install flow-tools-devel using yum by running the following command:
Install flow-tools-devel 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.
After updating yum database, We can install flow-tools-devel using dnf by running the following command:
How To Uninstall flow-tools-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the flow-tools-devel package we can use the following command:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flow-tools-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.