How To Install ibmonitor on Fedora 34

ibmonitor is Interactive bandwidth monitor

Introduction

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

What is ibmonitor

The program ibmonitor is an interactive linux console application which shows bandwidth consumed and total data transferred on all interfaces.

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

Install ibmonitor 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 ibmonitor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ibmonitor

Install ibmonitor 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 ibmonitor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ibmonitor

How To Uninstall ibmonitor on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ibmonitor

ibmonitor Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ibmonitor
/usr/share/doc/ibmonitor
/usr/share/doc/ibmonitor/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ibmonitor/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ibmonitor/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ibmonitor/README
/usr/share/doc/ibmonitor/TODO

References

Summary

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