How To Install nethogs on CentOS 8

nethogs is A tool resembling top for network traffic

Introduction

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

What is `nethogs`

NetHogs is a small “net top” tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most such tools do, it groups bandwidth by process and does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. So if there’s suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see which PID is causing this, and if it’s some kind of spinning process, kill it.

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

Install nethogs 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 nethogs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nethogs

Install nethogs 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 nethogs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nethogs

How To Uninstall nethogs on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove nethogs

nethogs Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/eb3de8216884dc76041c6c6c70e777bdf7aae7
/usr/sbin/nethogs
/usr/share/doc/nethogs
/usr/share/doc/nethogs/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/nethogs/DESIGN
/usr/share/doc/nethogs/README.md
/usr/share/man/man8/nethogs.8.gz

References

nethogs website

Summary

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