How To Install vnstat on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vnstat
on CentOS 7.
What is vnstat
vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor that keeps a log of daily network traffic for the selected interface(s). vnStat isn’t a packet sniffer. The traffic information is analyzed from the /proc file-system, so vnStat can be used without root permissions. See the web-page for few ‘screenshots’.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install vnstat
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vnstat.
Install vnstat on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install vnstat
using yum
by running the following command:
Install vnstat 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 vnstat
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall vnstat on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the vnstat
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vnstat
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.