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cacti


Information about the package, cacti, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The cacti package is designed for, An rrd based graphing tool.


Package Name:

cacti

Summary:

An rrd based graphing tool

Description:

Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool. It stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven.

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

1.1.19

Release:

2.el6

Size:

7.0 M

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for cacti


Control the cacti package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install cacti

This command will install cacti on the server.

yum remove cacti

This command will un-install cacti on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cacti, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove cacti

This command will un-install cacti on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove cacti when using the -y flag.

yum update cacti

This command will update cacti to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cacti, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update cacti

This command will update cacti to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove cacti when using the -y flag.

yum info cacti

This command will show you core information about the cacti package.

yum deplist cacti

This command will show you the dependencies for cacti. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update cacti

This command will check if there is an update waiting on cacti. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.