How To Install freecolor on CentOS 8

freecolor is Display memory information graphically

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freecolor on CentOS 8.

What is freecolor

Freecolor displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system as a colored bargraph on the command line.

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

Install freecolor on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install freecolor

Install freecolor on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install freecolor

How To Uninstall freecolor on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove freecolor

freecolor Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/freecolor
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/d6a1d3e2b4b7929d8a23c066e9fc56ce0f052d
/usr/share/doc/freecolor
/usr/share/doc/freecolor/README
/usr/share/licenses/freecolor
/usr/share/licenses/freecolor/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/freecolor.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freecolor on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.