How To Install pv on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pv on Rocky Linux 8. pv is A tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline

Introduction

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

What is pv

PV (“Pipe Viewer”) is a tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

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

Install pv 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 pv using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pv

Install pv 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 pv using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pv

How To Uninstall pv on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove pv

pv Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/pv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/bd29f356c8aa383e9504ed5e1438edca61d673
/usr/share/doc/pv
/usr/share/doc/pv/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pv/README
/usr/share/doc/pv/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/pv
/usr/share/licenses/pv/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pv.1.gz

References

Summary

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