How To Install ncdu on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ncdu on CentOS 8.
What is ncdu
ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a curses-based version of the well-known ‘du’, and provides a fast way to see what directories are using your disk space.
We can use yum or dnf to install ncdu on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ncdu.
Install ncdu 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 ncdu using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ncdu
Install ncdu 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 ncdu using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ncdu
How To Uninstall ncdu on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ncdu package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ncdu
ncdu Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/ncdu
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/d250ed8678d15c116bde65d58bdaab83d0c67c
/usr/share/doc/ncdu
/usr/share/doc/ncdu/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ncdu/ChangeLog
/usr/share/man/man1/ncdu.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ncdu on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
