How To Install topline on Fedora 34

topline is Per-core/NUMA CPU and disk utilization plain-text grapher

Introduction

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

What is `topline`

This is a top-of-the-line logger of CPU usage patterns, designed for machines with ca. 50-300 total hardware threads (fewer works but results in a narrow graph, more requires a very wide terminal). Every per-tick sample is shown abusing Unicode characters to fit within a single line. Disk usage is also shown in a similarly terse per-device way, as % utilization for reads and writes.

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

Install topline 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 topline using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install topline

Install topline 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 topline using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install topline

How To Uninstall topline on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove topline

topline Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/topline
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/ecd8b0a517944ceed6980de268a711cf1a005e
/usr/share/doc/topline
/usr/share/doc/topline/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/topline
/usr/share/licenses/topline/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/topline.1.gz

References

topline website

Summary

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