Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apachetop on CentOS 8.
What is apachetop
ApacheTop watches a logfile generated by Apache (in standard common or combined logformat, although it doesn’t (yet) make use of any of the extra fields in combined) and generates human-parsable output in realtime.
We can use yum or dnf to install apachetop on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install apachetop.
Install apachetop on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install apachetop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install apachetop
Install apachetop on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install apachetop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install apachetop
How To Uninstall apachetop on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the apachetop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove apachetop
apachetop Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/apachetop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/6e3b2e721ba04770f5ece4170cfb9b510b51af
/usr/share/doc/apachetop
/usr/share/doc/apachetop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/apachetop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/apachetop/README
/usr/share/licenses/apachetop
/usr/share/licenses/apachetop/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/apachetop.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apachetop on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
