How To Install iftop on Fedora 34

iftop is Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iftop on Fedora 34.

What is iftop

iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question “why is our ADSL link so slow?”.

We can use yum or dnf to install iftop on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iftop.

Install iftop 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 iftop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iftop

Install iftop 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 iftop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iftop

How To Uninstall iftop on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the iftop package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove iftop

iftop Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/810a3f409c0d5da6bd0552d8bfc151c7420af1
/usr/sbin/iftop
/usr/share/doc/iftop
/usr/share/doc/iftop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/iftop/README
/usr/share/doc/iftop/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/iftop
/usr/share/licenses/iftop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/iftop.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iftop on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.