How To Install conmon on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install conmon on Rocky Linux 8. conmon is OCI container runtime monitor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install conmon on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `conmon`

OCI container runtime monitor.

We can use yum or dnf to install conmon on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install conmon.

Install conmon on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install conmon

Install conmon on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install conmon

How To Uninstall conmon on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove conmon

conmon Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/conmon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/3463302cfa0c867196180fbfe4ad56c4d96f44
/usr/share/doc/conmon
/usr/share/doc/conmon/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/conmon
/usr/share/licenses/conmon/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/conmon.8.gz

References

conmon website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install conmon on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.