How To Install itop on Fedora 34

itop is Interactive interrupt viewer

Introduction

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

What is itop

Interrupts ’top-like’ utility for Linux

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

Install itop 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 itop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install itop

Install itop 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 itop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install itop

How To Uninstall itop on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove itop

itop Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/itop
/usr/share/doc/itop
/usr/share/doc/itop/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/itop
/usr/share/licenses/itop/LICENSE

References

Summary

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