How To Install pv on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pv
on CentOS 7.
What is pv
PV (“Pipe Viewer”) is a tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install pv
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pv.
Install pv on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install pv
using yum
by running the following command:
Install pv 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 pv
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall pv on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pv
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pv
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.