How To Install pcp-pmda-lmsensors.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install pcp-pmda-lmsensors.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. pcp-pmda-lmsensors.x86_64 is Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) metrics for hardware sensors

Introduction

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

What is `pcp-pmda-lmsensors.x86_64`

This package contains the PCP Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) for collecting metrics about the Linux hardware monitoring sensors.

We can use yum to install pcp-pmda-lmsensors.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-pmda-lmsensors.x86_64.

Install pcp-pmda-lmsensors.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-pmda-lmsensors.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcp-pmda-lmsensors.x86_64

How To Uninstall pcp-pmda-lmsensors.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove pcp-pmda-lmsensors.x86_64

pcp-pmda-lmsensors.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lmsensors
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lmsensors/Install
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lmsensors/README
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lmsensors/Remove
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lmsensors/help
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lmsensors/pmdalmsensors.python
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lmsensors/pmns
/var/lib/pcp/pmdas/lmsensors/root

References

pcp-pmda-lmsensors.x86_64 website

Summary

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