How To Install atop on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install atop on AlmaLinux 8.
What is atop
An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to view the load on system-level and process-level. The command atop has some major advantages compared to other performance-monitors - Resource consumption by all processes - Utilization of all relevant resources - Permanent logging of resource utilization - Highlight critical resources - Watch activity only - Watch deviations only - Accumulated process activity per user - Accumulated process activity per program For more informations The package does not make use of the patches available at http
We can use yum or dnf to install atop on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install atop.
Install atop on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install atop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install atop
Install atop on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install atop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install atop
How To Uninstall atop on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the atop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove atop
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install atop on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
