Time for action – installing Calamaris

Calamaris can be installed using a package manager for our operating system. For installing Calamaris on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, or Fedora, we can use yum as follows:

$ yum install calamaris

To install Calamaris on Debian, Ubuntu, or other Debian-like operating systems, we can use aptitude as follows:

$ aptitude install calamaris

If Calamaris is not available in our operating system's software repository, we can visit the Calamaris official website and download the latest version. Please follow the installation instructions in the software bundle. We'll be using version 2.99.4.0 in this book.

What just happened?

We learned how to install Calamaris using the package managers for several operating systems.

Using Calamaris to generate statistics

Once we have finished installing Calamaris, we can use it on the command line to parse our log files.