How To Install whowatch on Fedora 34

whowatch is Display information about users currently logged on

Introduction

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

What is whowatch

Whowatch is an interactive who-like program that displays information about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real time. Besides standard information (login name, tty, host, user’s process), the type of the connection (ie. telnet or ssh) is shown. You can toggle display between users’ command or idle time. You can watch processes tree, navigate in it and send INT and KILL signals.

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

Install whowatch 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 whowatch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install whowatch

Install whowatch 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 whowatch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install whowatch

How To Uninstall whowatch on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove whowatch

whowatch Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/whowatch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/8261695919544c91de34a0711399bd3ce53992
/usr/share/doc/whowatch
/usr/share/doc/whowatch/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/whowatch/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/whowatch/PLUGINS.readme
/usr/share/doc/whowatch/README
/usr/share/doc/whowatch/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/whowatch
/usr/share/licenses/whowatch/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/whowatch.1.gz

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Summary

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