How To Install filelight on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install filelight on Rocky Linux 8. filelight is Graphical disk usage statistics

Introduction

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

What is `filelight`

Filelight allows you to quickly understand exactly where your diskspace is being used by graphically representing your file system.

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

Install filelight 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 filelight using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install filelight

Install filelight 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 filelight using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install filelight

How To Uninstall filelight on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove filelight

filelight Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/xdg/filelightrc
/usr/bin/filelight
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/30404392fa0a496a1e83432e13e9319b62b7aa
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.filelight.desktop
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/filelight/config_appear.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/filelight/config_scan.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/filelight/radial_map.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/filelight/radial_map_context_menu.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/filelight/config_appear.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/filelight/config_scan.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/filelight/radial_map.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/filelight/radial_map_context_menu.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/filelight/config_appear.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/filelight/config_scan.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/filelight/radial_map.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/filelight/radial_map_context_menu.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/filelight
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/filelight/config_appear.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/filelight/config_scan.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/filelight/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/filelight/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/filelight/radial_map.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/filelight/radial_map_context_menu.png
/usr/share/doc/filelight
/usr/share/doc/filelight/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/filelight/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/filelight.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/filelight.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/filelight.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/filelight.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/filelight.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/filelight.png
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/filelight
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/filelight/filelightui.rc
/usr/share/licenses/filelight
/usr/share/licenses/filelight/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/filelight/COPYING-DOCS
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/filelight.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.filelight.appdata.xml
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/filelight.categories

References

filelight website

Summary

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