How To Install statgrab on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install statgrab on CentOS 7.
What is statgrab
Statgrab gives a sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything else that can’t easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is a script to generate an MRTG configuration file to use statgrab.
We can use yum or dnf to install statgrab on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install statgrab.
Install statgrab on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install statgrab using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install statgrab
Install statgrab 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install statgrab using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install statgrab
How To Uninstall statgrab on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the statgrab package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove statgrab
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install statgrab on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
