How To Install ipv6gen on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipv6gen in Fedora 36. ipv6gen is IPv6 prefix generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipv6gen on Fedora 36.

What is ipv6gen

ipv6gen is a tool which generates lists of IPv6 prefixes using the process described by RFC 3531.

We can use yum or dnf to install ipv6gen on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipv6gen.

Install ipv6gen 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 ipv6gen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ipv6gen

Install ipv6gen 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 ipv6gen using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipv6gen

How To Uninstall ipv6gen on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ipv6gen package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ipv6gen

ipv6gen Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/check-overlap
/usr/bin/ipv6gen
/usr/share/doc/ipv6gen
/usr/share/doc/ipv6gen/Changelog.txt
/usr/share/licenses/ipv6gen
/usr/share/licenses/ipv6gen/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/ipv6gen.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipv6gen on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).