How To Install bwm-ng on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install bwm-ng on CentOS 7. bwm-ng is Bandwidth Monitor NG

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bwm-ng on CentOS 7.

What is bwm-ng

A small and simple console-based live network and disk io bandwidth monitor. Features - Supports /proc/net/dev, netstat, getifaddr, sysctl, kstat, /proc/diskstats /proc/partitions, IOKit, devstat and libstatgrab - Unlimited number of interfaces/devices supported - Interfaces/devices are added or removed dynamically from list - White-/blacklist of interfaces/devices - Output of KB/s, Kb/s, packets, errors, average, max and total sum - Output in curses, plain console, CSV or HTML - Configfile

We can use yum or dnf to install bwm-ng on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bwm-ng.

Install bwm-ng on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install bwm-ng using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bwm-ng

Install bwm-ng on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install bwm-ng

How To Uninstall bwm-ng on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the bwm-ng package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bwm-ng

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bwm-ng on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.