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