How to install iftop?

Question

I tried:

root@host [/home]# yum install iftop
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.mirrors.tds.net
 * extras: yum.singlehop.com
 * updates: mirror.wiredtree.com
Setting up Install Process
No package iftop available.
Error: Nothing to do

So how to do it?

What should I do to be able to do so?

score 15 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 10 '13 at 20:17

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iftop available in EPEL repository:

# rpm -ivh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

answered Jan 10 '13 at 20:17

dchirikov

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I did that. Now how to run iftop? I run it and nothing shows up – user4951 Jul 11 '14 at 04:36
after adding repository run this: yum install iftop – manuel Mar 13 '15 at 14:23

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 10 '13 at 20:17

8

You can either download the source code and compile the package yourself, or you can downloaded the binary package for your distribution.

Have a look at http://pkgs.repoforge.org/iftop/ as it provides binary packages for RHEL/CentOS and the source.

To install the binary package on CentOS-6 64-bit just do the following:

wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/iftop/iftop-0.17-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh iftop-0.17-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

answered Jan 10 '13 at 20:17

vipo

194

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rpm can accept a http or ftp link as the package name. No need to wget. Also, it's best to stick to atleast semi-official repositories like EPEL when possible. – jordanm Jan 10 '13 at 20:19
+1 for both. Can anyone tell me why the 2 answers are different? – user4951 Jan 11 '13 at 01:49
I shorten your instruction to: rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/iftop/iftop-0.17-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm – user4951 Jan 11 '13 at 03:14
This repo is not maintained anymore and strongly not recommended to use. Use epel instead!
Find more information on additional rhel / centos/ oel repos here: https://wiki.centos.org/PatrickDGarvey/AdditionalResources/Repositories
– aim Nov 27 '15 at 23:59

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 10 '17 at 14:40

4

For CentOS 7 (fully updated today), install from EPEL repository

yum install epel-release -y
yum install iftop -y

Not 100% sure, but I think earlier versions require downloading the EPEL repository and installing manually using rpm, then you can just "yum install iftop" (as per other answers)

answered Aug 10 '17 at 14:40

KolonUK

219

Yes it works for me! – newguy Aug 24 '17 at 16:19

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 27 '15 at 23:54

1

For Centos 7 you can do this:

rpm -i http://mirror.pnl.gov/epel/7/x86_64/i/iftop-1.0-0.7.pre4.el7.x86_64.rpm

answered Nov 27 '15 at 23:54

bronson

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sudo yum install libpcap && rpm -i https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/i/iftop-1.0-0.12.pre4.el7.x86_64.rpm worked for me - also you posted a mirror – Jose Alban Feb 08 '17 at 11:25

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