How To Install time on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install time on Rocky Linux 8. time is A GNU utility for monitoring a program’s use of system resources

Introduction

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

What is time

The GNU time utility runs another program, collects information about the resources used by that program while it is running, and displays the results.

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

Install time 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 time using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install time

Install time 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 time using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install time

How To Uninstall time on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove time

time Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/time
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/934409d6f9bfcf1d9cdeaeb9a38c054bb1a1ac
/usr/share/doc/time
/usr/share/doc/time/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/time/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/time/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/time/README
/usr/share/info/time.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/time
/usr/share/licenses/time/COPYING

References

Summary

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