How To Install wmnd on Fedora 34

wmnd is Dockapp for monitoring network interfaces

Introduction

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

What is wmnd

WMND is a dockapp for monitoring network interfaces under WindowMaker and other compatible window managers. WMND currently works on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Darwin and IRIX. WMND can monitor multiple interfaces at the same time, sports several display modes and can also monitor remote interfaces through SNMP.

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

Install wmnd 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 wmnd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wmnd

Install wmnd 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 wmnd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wmnd

How To Uninstall wmnd on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wmnd

wmnd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/wmnd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/5b78bfdf0fdc05454078b7d202878be694521a
/usr/share/doc/wmnd
/usr/share/doc/wmnd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wmnd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/wmnd/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/wmnd/README
/usr/share/doc/wmnd/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/wmnd/TODO
/usr/share/doc/wmnd/examples
/usr/share/doc/wmnd/examples/wmndrc
/usr/share/man/man1/wmnd.1.gz

References

Summary

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