How To Install mytop on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mytop on Rocky Linux 8. mytop is A top clone for MySQL

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mytop on Rocky Linux 8.

What is mytop

mytop is a console-based tool for monitoring the threads and overall performance of MySQL servers. The user interface is modeled after familiar top application.

We can use yum or dnf to install mytop on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mytop.

Install mytop on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mytop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mytop

Install mytop on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mytop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mytop

How To Uninstall mytop on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove mytop

mytop Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/mytop
/usr/share/doc/mytop
/usr/share/doc/mytop/Changes
/usr/share/doc/mytop/README
/usr/share/man/man1/mytop.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mytop on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.