How To Install nethogs on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nethogs in AlmaLinux 8. nethogs is A tool resembling top for network traffic

Introduction

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

What is nethogs

NetHogs is a small “net top” tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most such tools do, it groups bandwidth by process and does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. So if there’s suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see which PID is causing this, and if it’s some kind of spinning process, kill it.

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

Install nethogs 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 nethogs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nethogs

Install nethogs 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 nethogs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nethogs

How To Uninstall nethogs on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove nethogs

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Summary

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