How To Install xrestop on CentOS 8

xrestop is X Resource Monitor

Introduction

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

What is xrestop

A utility to monitor application usage of X resources in the X Server, and display them in a manner similar to ’top’. This is a very useful utility for tracking down application X resource usage leaks.

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

Install xrestop 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 xrestop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xrestop

Install xrestop 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 xrestop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xrestop

How To Uninstall xrestop on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove xrestop

xrestop Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/xrestop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/75f550203f24c79089ba1967d41d0a336b1b82
/usr/share/doc/xrestop
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/README
/usr/share/man/man1/xrestop.1.gz

References

Summary

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