How To Install freecolor on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install freecolor on Rocky Linux 8. freecolor is Display memory information graphically

Introduction

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

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freecolor.

Install freecolor 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 freecolor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freecolor

Install freecolor 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 freecolor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freecolor

How To Uninstall freecolor on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove freecolor

freecolor Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/freecolor
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/d6a1d3e2b4b7929d8a23c066e9fc56ce0f052d
/usr/share/doc/freecolor
/usr/share/doc/freecolor/README
/usr/share/licenses/freecolor
/usr/share/licenses/freecolor/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/freecolor.1.gz

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Summary

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