How To Install flamethrower on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install flamethrower in Fedora 36. flamethrower is A DNS performance and functional testing utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flamethrower on Fedora 36.

What is flamethrower

Flamethrower is a small, fast, configurable tool for functional testing, benchmarking, and stress testing DNS servers and networks. It supports IPv4, IPv6, UDP and TCP, and has a modular system for generating queries used in the tests. It was built as an alternative to dnsperf, and many of the command line options are compatible.

We can use yum or dnf to install flamethrower on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flamethrower.

Install flamethrower on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install flamethrower using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flamethrower

Install flamethrower on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install flamethrower using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flamethrower

How To Uninstall flamethrower on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the flamethrower package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove flamethrower

flamethrower Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/flame
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/98e82031947dfb081cbfc9368b51efe659d99b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/0adec6a9a41b930e5f8471e08cfbd87947b5ec
/usr/lib64/libflamecore.so
/usr/share/doc/flamethrower
/usr/share/doc/flamethrower/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/flamethrower
/usr/share/licenses/flamethrower/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/flame.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flamethrower on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).