Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bwm-ng on CentOS 8.
What is bwm-ng
A small and simple console-based live network and disk io bandwidth monitor. Features – Supports /proc/net/dev, netstat, getifaddr, sysctl, kstat, /proc/diskstats /proc/partitions, IOKit, devstat and libstatgrab – Unlimited number of interfaces/devices supported – Interfaces/devices are added or removed dynamically from list – White-/blacklist of interfaces/devices – Output of KB/s, Kb/s, packets, errors, average, max and total sum – Output in curses, plain console, CSV or HTML – Configfile
We can use yum or dnf to install bwm-ng on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bwm-ng.
Install bwm-ng 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 bwm-ng using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bwm-ng
Install bwm-ng 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 bwm-ng using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bwm-ng
How To Uninstall bwm-ng on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bwm-ng package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bwm-ng
bwm-ng Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/bwm-ng.conf
/usr/bin/bwm-ng
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/1e425fcb68ad35f21d951b7392a782f1d27373
/usr/share/doc/bwm-ng
/usr/share/doc/bwm-ng/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bwm-ng/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/bwm-ng/README
/usr/share/doc/bwm-ng/bwm-ng.conf-example
/usr/share/doc/bwm-ng/bwm-ng.css
/usr/share/man/man1/bwm-ng.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bwm-ng on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
