How To Install prettyping on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prettyping on CentOS 7.

What is prettyping

prettyping runs the standard ping in background and parses its output, showing ping responses in a graphical way at the terminal, by using colors and Unicode characters. Don’t have support for UTF-8 in your terminal? No problem, you can disable it and use standard ASCII characters instead. Don’t have support for colors? No problem, you can also disable them.

We can use yum or dnf to install prettyping on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install prettyping.

Install prettyping on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install prettyping

Install prettyping 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 prettyping using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install prettyping

How To Uninstall prettyping on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove prettyping

References

• prettyping website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install prettyping on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.