How To Install usbtop on Fedora 34

usbtop is Utility to show USB bandwidth

Introduction

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

What is usbtop

usbtop is a top-like utility that shows an estimated instantaneous bandwidth on USB buses and devices.

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

Install usbtop 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 usbtop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install usbtop

Install usbtop 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 usbtop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install usbtop

How To Uninstall usbtop on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove usbtop

usbtop Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/7f528f8c4cefc4470b01d6797cbe78bb74e9b8
/usr/lib/modules-load.d/usbtop.conf
/usr/sbin/usbtop
/usr/share/doc/usbtop
/usr/share/doc/usbtop/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/usbtop/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/usbtop
/usr/share/licenses/usbtop/LICENSE

References

Summary

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