collectd package sources, install commands, and locations

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When you run the data collection script for a *nix system, the script installs a compatible version of collectd if it is not found on the system. The following table shares the package source, install commands, and install locations for collectd and the collectd plug-in according to the supported operating system.

Operating system	Package source	Install command	Install locations
CentOS 6 RHEL 6	https://pkg.ci.collectd.org/rpm/collectd-5.7/epel-6-x86_64/	yum install https://pkg.ci.collectd.org/rpm/collectd-5.7/epel-6-x86_64/<collectd.rpm>	.conf file: /etc/collectd.conf plug-in directory: /usr/lib64/collectd
CentOS 7 RHEL 7	Enable Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository	Install epel-release. CentOS 7: yum install epel-release RHEL 7: yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm yum --enablerepo=epel install collectd	.conf file: /etc/collectd.conf plug-in directory: /usr/lib64/collectd
CentOS 8 RHEL 8	Enable Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository	Install epel-release. CentOS 8: yum install epel-release RHEL 8: yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm yum --enablerepo=epel install collectd	.conf file: /etc/collectd.conf plug-in directory: usr/lib64/collectd
Fedora (25+)	Fedora collectd packages	yum install collectd	.conf file: /etc/collectd.conf plug-in directory: /usr/lib64/collectd
Debian 7, 8 Ubuntu 14, 16	http://pkg.ci.collectd.org/deb/dists/	Option 1 (recommended): add gpg key, repository source, and install wget -qO - http://pkg.ci.collectd.org/pubkey.asc | $_sudo apt-key add - echo "deb http://pkg.ci.collectd.org/deb ${debian_distribution} collectd-5.8" | $_sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collectd-ci.list apt-get update apt-get --yes install collectd Option 2: Add repository source and install with --allow-unauthenticated tag echo "deb http://pkg.ci.collectd.org/deb ${debian_distribution} collectd-5.8" | $_sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/collectd-ci.list apt-get update apt-get --yes --allow-unauthenticated install collectd {debian_distribution} will be wheezy (Debian 7), jessie (Debian 8), trusty (Ubuntu 14), or xenial (Ubuntu 16).	.conf file: /etc/collectd/collectd.conf plug-in directory: /usr/lib/collectd
Debian 9, 10	https://packages.debian.org/stretch/collectd	apt-get install collectd	.conf file: /etc/collectd/collectd.conf plug-in directory: /usr/lib/collectd
Ubuntu 18, 20	https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/collectd	apt-get install collectd	.conf file: /etc/collectd/collectd.conf plug-in directory: /usr/lib/collectd
openSUSE 15	https://software.opensuse.org/package/collectd	zypper install collectd	.conf file: /etc/collectd.conf plug-in directory: /usr/lib64/collectd
SUSE Enterprise 15	https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/monitoring/SLE_15/ https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Backports:/SLE-15/standard/	zypper -n addrepo 'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:monitoring/SLE_15/server:monitoring.repo' zypper -n --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh 'server_monitoring' zypper -n addrepo 'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Backports:/SLE-15/standard/openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15.repo' zypper -n --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh 'openSUSE_Backports_SLE-15' zypper install collectd	.conf file: /etc/collectd.conf plug-in directory: /usr/lib64/collectd
Solaris x86 10, 11	https://www.opencsw.org/packages/CSWcollectd/	pkgadd -d http://get.opencsw.org/now all /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -U /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -i collectd	.conf file: /etc/opt/csw/collectd.conf plug-in directory: /opt/csw/lib/collectd
Mac OS X	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/collectd	collectd_formula_5_8_1='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/3d1768d3ddb219254e2db6d255c11647498b47e7/Formula/collectd.rb' brew install "$collectd_formula_5_8_1"	.conf file: /usr/local/Cellar/collectd/<version>/etc/collectd.conf plug-in directory: /usr/local/Cellar/collectd/<version>/lib/collectd