How To Install innotop on Fedora 34

innotop is A MySQL and InnoDB monitor program

Introduction

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

What is innotop

innotop connects to a MySQL database server and retrieves information from it, then displays it in a manner similar to the UNIX top program. innotop uses the data from SHOW VARIABLES, SHOW GLOBAL STATUS, SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST, and SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS, among other things.

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

Install innotop 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 innotop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install innotop

Install innotop 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 innotop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install innotop

How To Uninstall innotop on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove innotop

innotop Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/innotop
/usr/share/doc/innotop
/usr/share/doc/innotop/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/innotop
/usr/share/licenses/innotop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/innotop.1.gz

References

Summary

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