How To Install pv on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pv on CentOS 8.
What is pv
PV (“Pipe Viewer”) is a tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
We can use yum or dnf to install pv on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pv.
Install pv 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 pv using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pv
Install pv 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 pv using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pv
How To Uninstall pv on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pv package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pv
pv Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/pv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/bd29f356c8aa383e9504ed5e1438edca61d673
/usr/share/doc/pv
/usr/share/doc/pv/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pv/README
/usr/share/doc/pv/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/pv
/usr/share/licenses/pv/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pv.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pv on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.