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