How To Install time on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install time on CentOS 8.
What is time
The GNU time utility runs another program, collects information about the resources used by that program while it is running, and displays the results.
We can use yum or dnf to install time on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install time.
Install time 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 time using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install time
Install time 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 time using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install time
How To Uninstall time on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the time package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove time
time Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/time
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/564f00385fa19038bc7bf8e9ca4541b16d348e
/usr/share/doc/time
/usr/share/doc/time/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/time/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/time/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/time/README
/usr/share/info/time.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/time
/usr/share/licenses/time/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install time on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.