How To Install fusioninventory-agent on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is fusioninventory-agent
FusionInventory Agent is an application designed to help a network or system administrator to keep track of the hardware and software configurations of computers that are installed on the network. This agent can send information about the computer to a OCS Inventory NG or GLPI server with the FusionInventory for GLPI plugin. You can add additional packages for optional tasks * fusioninventory-agent-task-network Network Discovery and Inventory support * fusioninventory-agent-inventory Local inventory support for FusionInventory * fusioninventory-agent-task-deploy Software deployment support * fusioninventory-agent-task-esx vCenter/ESX/ESXi remote inventory * fusioninventory-agent-task-collect Custom information retrieval support * fusioninventory-agent-task-wakeonlan Wake o lan task
We can use yum
or dnf
to install fusioninventory-agent
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fusioninventory-agent.
Install fusioninventory-agent on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fusioninventory-agent
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fusioninventory-agent
Install fusioninventory-agent on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fusioninventory-agent
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fusioninventory-agent
How To Uninstall fusioninventory-agent on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the fusioninventory-agent
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fusioninventory-agent
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.