How To Install time on Fedora 34

time is A GNU utility for monitoring a program’s use of system resources

Introduction

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

What is time

The GNU time utility runs another program, collects information about the resources used by that program while it is running, and displays the results.

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

Install time 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 time using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install time

Install time 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 time using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install time

How To Uninstall time on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove time

time Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/time
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/2e8e110bae47cb7cc12b68c7d44bcfd023ba30
/usr/share/doc/time
/usr/share/doc/time/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/time/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/time/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/time/README
/usr/share/info/time.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/time
/usr/share/licenses/time/COPYING

References

Summary

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