How To Install syslog-ng-amqp on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install syslog-ng-amqp on Rocky Linux 8. syslog-ng-amqp is AMQP support for syslog-ng

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install syslog-ng-amqp on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `syslog-ng-amqp`

This module supports the AMQP destination.

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

Install syslog-ng-amqp 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 syslog-ng-amqp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install syslog-ng-amqp

Install syslog-ng-amqp 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 syslog-ng-amqp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install syslog-ng-amqp

How To Uninstall syslog-ng-amqp on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the syslog-ng-amqp package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove syslog-ng-amqp

syslog-ng-amqp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/2d920a77b9923fd511d379481a229c55edc720
/usr/lib64/syslog-ng/libafamqp.so

References

syslog-ng-amqp website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install syslog-ng-amqp on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.