How To Install iftop on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iftop
on CentOS 7.
What is iftop
iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question “why is our ADSL link so slow?”.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install iftop
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iftop.
Install iftop on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install iftop
using yum
by running the following command:
Install iftop 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.
After updating yum database, We can install iftop
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall iftop on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the iftop
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iftop
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.