How To Install virt-top.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-top.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. virt-top.x86_64 is Utility like top(1) for displaying virtualization stats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-top.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `virt-top.x86_64`

virt-top is a ’top(1)’-like utility for showing stats of virtualized domains. Many keys and command line options are the same as for ordinary ’top’. It uses libvirt so it is capable of showing stats across a variety of different virtualization systems.

We can use yum to install virt-top.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install virt-top.x86_64.

Install virt-top.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install virt-top.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install virt-top.x86_64

How To Uninstall virt-top.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the virt-top.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove virt-top.x86_64

virt-top.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/processcsv.py
/usr/bin/virt-top
/usr/share/doc/virt-top-1.0.8
/usr/share/doc/virt-top-1.0.8/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/virt-top-1.0.8/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/virt-top-1.0.8/README
/usr/share/doc/virt-top-1.0.8/TODO
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/virt-top.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/processcsv.py.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/virt-top.1.gz

References

virt-top.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install virt-top.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.