Collectl is a powerful performance monitoring tool for Linux systems, but it can also be used on macOS. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to download and install the Collectl package on macOS.
Before we start, make sure that you have the following:
Collectl requires some additional tools to be installed before it can work on macOS. We will use Homebrew package manager to install these dependencies.
To install the dependencies, open Terminal and run the following command:
brew install perl sysstat
Next, we need to download the Collectl package from the official website at http://collectl.sourceforge.net/.
To download the package, open Terminal and run the following command:
curl -LO http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/collectl/collectl/collectl-4.3.1/collectl-4.3.1.src.tar.gz
The package has been downloaded as a compressed tar file. We need to extract it to a directory.
To extract the package, run the following command in Terminal:
tar -xvf collectl-4.3.1.src.tar.gz
Now, we can install Collectl. To do this, we need to move the Collectl source code to the appropriate location.
Run the following command in Terminal:
cd collectl-4.3.1
sudo cp collectl /usr/local/bin
sudo cp src/collectl* /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/
To verify that Collectl has been successfully installed on your macOS machine, run the following command in Terminal:
collectl --version
This will output the version number of Collectl, which indicates that the installation was successful.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to download and install Collectl on macOS. Collectl is a powerful tool for monitoring system performance, and it can be used to obtain detailed metrics and statistics about your system. By following the steps outlined in this tutorial, you can get started with Collectl on your macOS machine.
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