How To Install flow-tools-docs on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flow-tools-docs on CentOS 7.
What is flow-tools-docs
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 additional documentation, such as man pages in html format.
We can use yum or dnf to install flow-tools-docs on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flow-tools-docs.
Install flow-tools-docs 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-docs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flow-tools-docs
Install flow-tools-docs 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-docs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flow-tools-docs
How To Uninstall flow-tools-docs on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the flow-tools-docs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flow-tools-docs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flow-tools-docs on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
