How To Install htop on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install htop on Fedora 34.
What is htop
htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Linux, similar to top(1).
We can use yum or dnf to install htop on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install htop.
Install htop on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install htop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install htop
Install htop on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install htop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install htop
How To Uninstall htop on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the htop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove htop
htop Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/htop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/1c9090a98a633f0e5999fae20d4ec9382d46ec
/usr/share/applications/htop.desktop
/usr/share/doc/htop
/usr/share/doc/htop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/htop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/htop/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/htop.svg
/usr/share/licenses/htop
/usr/share/licenses/htop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/htop.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/htop.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install htop on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
