How To Install freecolor on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install freecolor on CentOS 7. freecolor is Display memory information graphically

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freecolor on CentOS 7.

What is freecolor

Freecolor displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system as a colored bargraph on the command line.

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

Install freecolor on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install freecolor

Install freecolor 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 freecolor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freecolor

How To Uninstall freecolor on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove freecolor

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Summary

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