How To Install xrestop on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xrestop
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is xrestop
A utility to monitor application usage of X resources in the X Server, and display them in a manner similar to ’top’. This is a very useful utility for tracking down application X resource usage leaks.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install xrestop
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xrestop.
Install xrestop 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 xrestop
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xrestop
Install xrestop 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 xrestop
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xrestop
How To Uninstall xrestop on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the xrestop
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xrestop
xrestop Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/xrestop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/e898538f69189c7917abfe433eea5be413487f
/usr/share/doc/xrestop
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/README
/usr/share/man/man1/xrestop.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xrestop
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.