How To Install pcp-gui on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-gui on Rocky Linux 8. pcp-gui is Visualization tools for the Performance Co-Pilot toolkit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-gui on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `pcp-gui`

Visualization tools for the Performance Co-Pilot toolkit. The pcp-gui package primarily includes visualization tools for monitoring systems using live and archived Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) sources.

We can use yum or dnf to install pcp-gui on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcp-gui.

Install pcp-gui on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install pcp-gui using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pcp-gui

Install pcp-gui on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install pcp-gui using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcp-gui

How To Uninstall pcp-gui on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the pcp-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pcp-gui

pcp-gui Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/pcp/pmchart
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Apache
/etc/pcp/pmchart/ApacheServer
/etc/pcp/pmchart/BusyCPU
/etc/pcp/pmchart/CPU
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Cisco
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Disk
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Diskbytes
/etc/pcp/pmchart/ElasticsearchServer
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Filesystem
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Iostat
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Iostat.DM
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Iostat.MD
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Loadavg
/etc/pcp/pmchart/MemAvailable
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Memory
/etc/pcp/pmchart/NFS2
/etc/pcp/pmchart/NFS3
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Netbytes
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Netpackets
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Overview
/etc/pcp/pmchart/PMCD
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Paging
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Sample
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Schemes
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Sendmail
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Sockets
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Swap
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Syscalls
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Web.Alarms
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Web.Allservers
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Web.Perserver.Bytes
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Web.Perserver.Requests
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Web.Requests
/etc/pcp/pmchart/Web.Volume
/etc/pcp/pmchart/shping.CPUTime
/etc/pcp/pmchart/shping.RealTime
/etc/pcp/pmchart/vCPU
/etc/pcp/pmsnap
/etc/pcp/pmsnap/Snap
/etc/pcp/pmsnap/control
/etc/pcp/pmsnap/crontab
/etc/pcp/pmsnap/summary.html
/usr/bin/pmchart
/usr/bin/pmconfirm
/usr/bin/pmdumptext
/usr/bin/pmmessage
/usr/bin/pmquery
/usr/bin/pmtime
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/8305e64b75fa3d0c2559912fb89d5c68764de5
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/dbb0a16a7c22eca1bcc6b8bf3b4aef6cb34da2
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/022c29b428a592b468416c4ed8490e8a66e183
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/0faada91242553bd89e09e400ff7e86c2d2e0a
/usr/libexec/pcp/bin/pmsnap
/usr/share/applications/pmchart.desktop
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pmdumptext
/usr/share/pcp-gui/pixmaps
/usr/share/pcp-gui/pixmaps/pmchart.png
/usr/share/pcp-gui/pixmaps/pmtime.png
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmafm/pcp-gui
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Apache
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/ApacheServer
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/BusyCPU
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/CPU
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Cisco
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Disk
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Diskbytes
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/ElasticsearchServer
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Filesystem
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Iostat
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Iostat.DM
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Iostat.MD
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Loadavg
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/MemAvailable
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Memory
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/NFS2
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/NFS3
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Netbytes
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Netpackets
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Overview
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/PMCD
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Paging
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Sample
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Schemes
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Sendmail
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Sockets
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Swap
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Syscalls
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Web.Alarms
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Web.Allservers
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Web.Perserver.Bytes
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Web.Perserver.Requests
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Web.Requests
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/Web.Volume
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/shping.CPUTime
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/shping.RealTime
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmchart/vCPU
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmsnap
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmsnap/Snap
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmsnap/crontab
/var/lib/pcp/config/pmsnap/summary.html

References

pcp-gui website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-gui on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.