How To Install liblognorm on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblognorm on CentOS 7.
What is liblognorm
Briefly described, liblognorm is a tool to normalize log data. People who need to take a look at logs often have a common problem. Logs from different machines (from different vendors) usually have different formats for their logs. Even if it is the same type of log (e.g. from firewalls), the log entries are so different, that it is pretty hard to read these. This is where liblognorm comes into the game. With this tool you can normalize all your logs. All you need is liblognorm and its dependencies and a sample database that fits the logs you want to normalize. Briefly described, liblognorm is a tool to normalize log data. People who need to take a look at logs often have a common problem. Logs from different machines (from different vendors) usually have different formats for their logs. Even if it is the same type of log (e.g. from firewalls), the log entries are so different, that it is pretty hard to read these. This is where liblognorm comes into the game. With this tool you can normalize all your logs. All you need is liblognorm and its dependencies and a sample database that fits the logs you want to normalize.
We can use yum or dnf to install liblognorm on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install liblognorm.
Install liblognorm on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install liblognorm using yum by running the following command:
Install liblognorm 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 liblognorm using dnf by running the following command:
How To Uninstall liblognorm on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the liblognorm package we can use the following command:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblognorm on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.