How To Install iftop on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install iftop in Fedora 36. iftop is Command line tool that displays bandwidth usage on an interface

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iftop on Fedora 36.

What is iftop

iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question “why is our ADSL link so slow?”.

We can use yum or dnf to install iftop on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iftop.

Install iftop on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install iftop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iftop

Install iftop on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install iftop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iftop

How To Uninstall iftop on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove iftop

iftop Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/c81c6730b15492729281e4bd57b69d4c439c01
/usr/sbin/iftop
/usr/share/doc/iftop
/usr/share/doc/iftop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/iftop/README
/usr/share/doc/iftop/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/iftop
/usr/share/licenses/iftop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/iftop.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iftop on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).