How To Install bmon on Fedora 34

bmon is Bandwidth monitor and rate estimator

Introduction

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

What is `bmon`

bmon is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually in a human friendly way. It features various output methods including an interactive curses user interface and a programmable text output for scripting.

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

Install bmon 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 bmon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bmon

Install bmon 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 bmon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bmon

How To Uninstall bmon on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove bmon

bmon Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bmon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/3fc7e7046c5bd492643763daafae411e16eccf
/usr/share/doc/bmon/examples/bmon.conf
/usr/share/licenses/bmon
/usr/share/licenses/bmon/LICENSE.BSD
/usr/share/licenses/bmon/LICENSE.MIT
/usr/share/man/man8/bmon.8.gz

References

bmon website

Summary

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