How To Install pv on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pv on Fedora 34.
What is pv
PV (“Pipe Viewer”) is a tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
We can use yum or dnf to install pv on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pv.
Install pv 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 pv using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pv
Install pv 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 pv using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pv
How To Uninstall pv on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pv package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pv
pv Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/pv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/4919ff4a30d47e1f7a32e54cff41dfc03059a7
/usr/share/doc/pv
/usr/share/doc/pv/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pv/README
/usr/share/doc/pv/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/pv
/usr/share/licenses/pv/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pv.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pv on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.