How To Install wavemon on Fedora 34

wavemon is Ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices

Introduction

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

What is `wavemon`

wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application that allows you to watch all important information like device configuration, encryption, and power management parameters and network information at once. Adaptive level bargraphs for link quality, signal/noise strength and signal-to-noise ratio. The customizeable “level alarm” feature that notices the user of changes in signal level strength audibly and/or visually. wavemon is able to list of access points in range and shows full-screen level histogram displaying signal/noise levels and SNR.

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

Install wavemon 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 wavemon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wavemon

Install wavemon 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 wavemon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wavemon

How To Uninstall wavemon on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wavemon

wavemon Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/wavemon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/1949ffbacc1118439efa5776d8842cc18d37c6
/usr/share/doc/wavemon
/usr/share/doc/wavemon/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wavemon
/usr/share/licenses/wavemon/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/wavemon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/wavemonrc.5.gz

References

wavemon website

Summary

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