How To Install capstats on Fedora 34

capstats is A command-line tool collecting packet statistics

Introduction

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

What is capstats

capstats is a small tool to collect statistics on the current load of a network interface. It reports statistics per time interval and/or for the tool’s total run-time.

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

Install capstats 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 capstats using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install capstats

Install capstats 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 capstats using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install capstats

How To Uninstall capstats on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove capstats

capstats Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/capstats
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/6916e4ddb126fa1defd80c832abd32d2dc9273
/usr/share/doc/capstats
/usr/share/doc/capstats/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/capstats/README
/usr/share/licenses/capstats
/usr/share/licenses/capstats/COPYING

References

Summary

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