How To Install gkrellm-top on CentOS 8

gkrellm-top is GKrellM plugin which shows 3 most CPU intensive processes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gkrellm-top on CentOS 8.

What is gkrellm-top

A GKrellM plugin which displays the top three CPU intensive processes in a small window inside GKrellM, similar to wmtop. Useful to check out anytime what processes are consuming most CPU power on your machine.

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

Install gkrellm-top 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 gkrellm-top using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gkrellm-top

Install gkrellm-top 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 gkrellm-top using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gkrellm-top

How To Uninstall gkrellm-top on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gkrellm-top package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gkrellm-top

gkrellm-top Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/73ce5773f6a84be75732c4f5c38d58af2dc526
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/f34ea6676a85f4e98bc7f5ea42f2647148b092
/usr/lib64/gkrellm2/plugins/gkrelltop.so
/usr/lib64/gkrellm2/plugins/gkrelltopd.so
/usr/share/doc/gkrellm-top
/usr/share/doc/gkrellm-top/README

References

Summary

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