How To Install pcp on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp on CentOS 8.
What is pcp
Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) provides a framework and services to support system-level performance monitoring and performance management. The PCP open source release provides a unifying abstraction for all of the interesting performance data in a system, and allows client applications to easily retrieve and process any subset of that data.
We can use yum or dnf to install pcp on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcp.
Install pcp on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install pcp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pcp
Install pcp on CentOS 8 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 pcp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pcp
How To Uninstall pcp on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pcp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pcp
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.