How To Install glances on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install glances in AlmaLinux 8. glances is CLI curses based monitoring tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glances on AlmaLinux 8.

What is glances

Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for both GNU/Linux and BSD. Glances uses the PsUtil library to get information from your system. It is developed in Python.

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

Install glances on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install glances

Install glances on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install glances

How To Uninstall glances on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove glances

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glances on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.