How To Install wmnd on Fedora 34
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.
