How To Install nethogs on Fedora 34

nethogs is A tool resembling top for network traffic

Introduction

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

What is nethogs

NetHogs is a small “net top” tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most such tools do, it groups bandwidth by process and does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. So if there’s suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see which PID is causing this, and if it’s some kind of spinning process, kill it.

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

Install nethogs 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 nethogs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nethogs

Install nethogs 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 nethogs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nethogs

How To Uninstall nethogs on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove nethogs

nethogs Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/975ed1c4c31cffc1a02e5c8cd776faca84269e
/usr/sbin/nethogs
/usr/share/doc/nethogs
/usr/share/doc/nethogs/DESIGN
/usr/share/doc/nethogs/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/nethogs/README.md
/usr/share/man/man8/nethogs.8.gz

References

Summary

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