How To Install trafshow on Fedora 34

trafshow is A tool for real-time network traffic visualization

Introduction

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

What is trafshow

TrafShow continuously display the information regarding packet traffic on the configured network interface that match the boolean expression. It periodically sorts and updates this information. This funny program may be useful for locating suspicious network traffic on the net or to evaluate current utilization of the network interface.

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

Install trafshow 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 trafshow using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install trafshow

Install trafshow 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 trafshow using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install trafshow

How To Uninstall trafshow on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove trafshow

trafshow Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/trafshow
/usr/bin/trafshow
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/7fca5ef3e94a69a4125eb100ad6c6af37d5694
/usr/share/doc/trafshow
/usr/share/doc/trafshow/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/trafshow/README
/usr/share/man/man1/trafshow.1.gz

References

Summary

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