Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bmon on CentOS 8.
What is bmon
bmon is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually in a human friendly way. It features various output methods including an interactive curses user interface and a programmable text output for scripting.
We can use yum or dnf to install bmon on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bmon.
Install bmon on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bmon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bmon
Install bmon on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bmon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bmon
How To Uninstall bmon on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bmon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bmon
bmon Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/bmon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/7ccbfbfda5b6a33986ab8f6f6059089218c4a5
/usr/share/doc/bmon/examples/bmon.conf
/usr/share/licenses/bmon
/usr/share/licenses/bmon/LICENSE.BSD
/usr/share/licenses/bmon/LICENSE.MIT
/usr/share/man/man8/bmon.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bmon on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
