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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?

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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
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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 at 20:19
+1 for both. Can anyone tell me why the 2 answers are different? – Jim Thio Jan 11 at 1:49
I shorten your instruction to: rpm -ivh pkgs.repoforge.org/iftop/iftop-0.17-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm – Jim Thio Jan 11 at 3:14
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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
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