How To Install pcp-collector.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-collector.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcp-collector.x86_64 is Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) Collection meta Package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-collector.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is pcp-collector.x86_64

This meta-package installs the PCP metric collection dependencies. This includes the vast majority of packages used to collect PCP metrics. The pcp-collector package also automatically enables and starts the pmcd and pmlogger services.

We can use yum to install pcp-collector.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pcp-collector.x86_64.

Install pcp-collector.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install pcp-collector.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcp-collector.x86_64

How To Uninstall pcp-collector.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the pcp-collector.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove pcp-collector.x86_64

pcp-collector.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-collector.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.