How To Install iperf3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf3.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. iperf3.x86_64 is Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `iperf3.x86_64`

Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, data-gram loss.

We can use yum to install iperf3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iperf3.x86_64.

Install iperf3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install iperf3.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iperf3.x86_64

How To Uninstall iperf3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the iperf3.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove iperf3.x86_64

iperf3.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/iperf3
/usr/lib64/libiperf.so.0
/usr/lib64/libiperf.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/iperf3-3.1.7
/usr/share/doc/iperf3-3.1.7/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/iperf3-3.1.7/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/iperf3-3.1.7/README.md
/usr/share/doc/iperf3-3.1.7/RELEASE_NOTES
/usr/share/man/man1/iperf3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libiperf.3.gz

References

iperf3.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf3.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.