How To Install iotop on CentOS 8

iotop is Top like utility for I/O

Introduction

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

What is iotop

Linux has always been able to show how much I/O was going on (the bi and bo columns of the vmstat 1 command). iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on.

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

Install iotop 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 iotop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iotop

Install iotop 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 iotop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iotop

How To Uninstall iotop on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove iotop

iotop Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop-0.6-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/data.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/data.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/genetlink.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/genetlink.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/ioprio.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/ioprio.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/netlink.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/netlink.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/ui.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/ui.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/version.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/vmstat.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/vmstat.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/data.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/genetlink.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/ioprio.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/netlink.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/ui.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/version.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/iotop/vmstat.py
/usr/sbin/iotop
/usr/share/doc/iotop
/usr/share/doc/iotop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/iotop/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/iotop/README
/usr/share/doc/iotop/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/iotop
/usr/share/licenses/iotop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/iotop.8.gz

References

Summary

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