How To Install freecolor on Fedora 34

freecolor is Display memory information graphically

Introduction

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

What is freecolor

Freecolor displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system as a colored bargraph on the command line.

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

Install freecolor 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 freecolor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freecolor

Install freecolor 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 freecolor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freecolor

How To Uninstall freecolor on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove freecolor

freecolor Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/freecolor
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/6847dd402170b52c97495ac7f113e6a983a349
/usr/share/doc/freecolor
/usr/share/doc/freecolor/README
/usr/share/licenses/freecolor
/usr/share/licenses/freecolor/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/freecolor.1.gz

References

Summary

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