How To Install ganglia on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia in AlmaLinux 8. ganglia is Distributed Monitoring System

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia on AlmaLinux 8.

What is ganglia

Ganglia is a scalable, real-time monitoring and execution environment with all execution requests and statistics expressed in an open well-defined XML format.

We can use yum or dnf to install ganglia on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ganglia.

Install ganglia 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 ganglia using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ganglia

Install ganglia 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 ganglia using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ganglia

How To Uninstall ganglia on AlmaLinux 8

To uninstall only the ganglia package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ganglia

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ganglia on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.