How To Install xrestop on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xrestop
on Fedora 34.
What is xrestop
A utility to monitor application usage of X resources in the X Server, and display them in a manner similar to ’top’. This is a very useful utility for tracking down application X resource usage leaks.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install xrestop
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xrestop.
Install xrestop 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 xrestop
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xrestop
Install xrestop 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 xrestop
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xrestop
How To Uninstall xrestop on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xrestop
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xrestop
xrestop Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/xrestop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/745e9585629d6e07c88dcaa11750981268e4f1
/usr/share/doc/xrestop
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xrestop/README
/usr/share/man/man1/xrestop.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xrestop
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.