How To Install omping.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install omping.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. omping.x86_64 is Utility to test IP multicast functionality

Introduction

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

What is `omping.x86_64`

Omping (Open Multicast Ping) is tool to test IP multicast functionality primarily in local network.

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

Install omping.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 omping.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install omping.x86_64

How To Uninstall omping.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove omping.x86_64

omping.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/omping
/usr/share/doc/omping-0.0.4
/usr/share/doc/omping-0.0.4/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/omping-0.0.4/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/omping.8.gz

References

omping.x86_64 website

Summary

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