How To Install iotop on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iotop on Fedora 34.
What is iotop
Linux has always been able to show how much I/O was going on (the bi and bo columns of the vmstat 1 command). iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on.
We can use yum or dnf to install iotop on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iotop.
Install iotop 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 iotop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install iotop
Install iotop 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 iotop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install iotop
How To Uninstall iotop on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the iotop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove iotop
iotop Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop-0.6-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/data.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/data.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/genetlink.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/genetlink.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/ioprio.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/ioprio.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/netlink.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/netlink.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/ui.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/ui.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/version.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/version.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/vmstat.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/__pycache__/vmstat.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/data.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/genetlink.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/ioprio.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/netlink.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/ui.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/version.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/iotop/vmstat.py
/usr/sbin/iotop
/usr/share/doc/iotop
/usr/share/doc/iotop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/iotop/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/iotop/README
/usr/share/doc/iotop/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/iotop
/usr/share/licenses/iotop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/iotop.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iotop on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.