Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apcupsd-cgi on CentOS 8.
What is apcupsd-cgi
A CGI interface to the APC UPS monitoring daemon.
We can use yum or dnf to install apcupsd-cgi on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install apcupsd-cgi.
Install apcupsd-cgi 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 apcupsd-cgi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install apcupsd-cgi
Install apcupsd-cgi 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 apcupsd-cgi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install apcupsd-cgi
How To Uninstall apcupsd-cgi on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the apcupsd-cgi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove apcupsd-cgi
apcupsd-cgi Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.css
/etc/apcupsd/hosts.conf
/etc/apcupsd/multimon.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d/apcupsd.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/ac6251c453265a98054bf5a2ec83603c220915
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/ee3825cfdb1c3b8409c5cdb207b0dce95f0ebc
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/5301c1dc9715eddd6532d452f97078864891fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/3db8ac2288f875704557cb442a3b9b607ad4ac
/var/www/apcupsd
/var/www/apcupsd/multimon.cgi
/var/www/apcupsd/upsfstats.cgi
/var/www/apcupsd/upsimage.cgi
/var/www/apcupsd/upsstats.cgi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apcupsd-cgi on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
