How to Install Rtop on Fedora CoreOS Latest?

Rtop is a powerful, interactive system monitoring tool that provides real-time insights into the system's metrics. It is an open-source tool that is available on Github.

In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Rtop on Fedora CoreOS. Follow the steps below:

Prerequisites

  1. A computer system that runs on Fedora CoreOS.
  2. A command-line interface with root access.

Step 1: Install EPEL Repository

To install Rtop on Fedora CoreOS, you need to first add the EPEL repository. Run the following command in the terminal to do that.

sudo dnf install epel-release

Step 2: Install required Dependencies

Rtop requires some dependencies to be installed on the system before proceeding with the installation.

Open the terminal and run the following command:

sudo dnf install git gcc make ncurses-devel

This command will install Git for cloning the Rtop repository, GCC and make to compile the Rtop source code, and ncurses-devel for building TUI user interfaces.

Step 3: Clone Rtop Repository

Next, clone the Rtop repository by running the following command:

git clone https://github.com/rapidloop/rtop.git

Step 4: Compile and Install Rtop

After cloning the repository, navigate to the rtop directory and run the following commands to compile and install Rtop.

cd rtop
make
sudo make install

Once the installation is complete, run the rtop command in the terminal to start the Rtop tool.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Rtop on Fedora CoreOS. Rtop is a useful tool to monitor system metrics in real-time, and it is relatively easy to install.

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