How To Install pv on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pv on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pv.
Install pv on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install pv using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pv
Install pv on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install pv using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pv
How To Uninstall pv on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the pv package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pv
pv Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/pv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/bd29f356c8aa383e9504ed5e1438edca61d673
/usr/share/doc/pv
/usr/share/doc/pv/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pv/README
/usr/share/doc/pv/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/pv
/usr/share/licenses/pv/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pv.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pv.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pv on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.