How To Install apachetop on Fedora 34

apachetop is A top-like display of Apache logs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apachetop on Fedora 34.

What is apachetop

ApacheTop watches a logfile generated by Apache (in standard common or combined logformat, although it doesn’t (yet) make use of any of the extra fields in combined) and generates human-parsable output in realtime.

We can use yum or dnf to install apachetop on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install apachetop.

Install apachetop on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install apachetop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install apachetop

Install apachetop on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install apachetop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install apachetop

How To Uninstall apachetop on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove apachetop

apachetop Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/apachetop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/166da142966325094c7dd28dabd70804e913d0
/usr/share/doc/apachetop
/usr/share/doc/apachetop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/apachetop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/apachetop/README
/usr/share/licenses/apachetop
/usr/share/licenses/apachetop/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/apachetop.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apachetop on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.