How To Install ifstat on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifstat on Fedora 34.
What is ifstat
ifstat(1) is a little tool to report interface activity like vmstat/iostat do. In addition, ifstat can poll remote hosts through SNMP if you have the ucd-snmp library. It will also be used for localhost if no other known method works (You need to have snmpd running for this though).
We can use yum or dnf to install ifstat on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ifstat.
Install ifstat 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 ifstat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ifstat
Install ifstat 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 ifstat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ifstat
How To Uninstall ifstat on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ifstat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ifstat
ifstat Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ifstat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/3f57df562160343bcb9c11e5261e5bfe469b89
/usr/share/doc/ifstat
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/README
/usr/share/doc/ifstat/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/ifstat.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifstat on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.