How To Install xosview on Fedora 34

xosview is An X Window System utility for monitoring system resources

Introduction

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

What is xosview

The xosview utility displays a set of bar graphs which show the current system state, including memory usage, CPU usage, system load, etc. Xosview runs under the X Window System.

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

Install xosview 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 xosview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xosview

Install xosview 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 xosview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xosview

How To Uninstall xosview on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xosview

xosview Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/xosview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/f00a802fa03876f025280b516c4aaf1c506f22
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XOsview
/usr/share/applications/xosview.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xosview
/usr/share/doc/xosview/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/xosview/README
/usr/share/doc/xosview/README.linux
/usr/share/doc/xosview/TODO
/usr/share/doc/xosview/Xdefaults
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/xosview.png
/usr/share/licenses/xosview
/usr/share/licenses/xosview/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/xosview/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/man/man1/xosview.1.gz

References

Summary

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