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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install iftop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install iftop
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install iftop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install iftop
How To Uninstall iftop on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the iftop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove iftop
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iftop on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
