How To Install fping on CentOS 8

fping is Scriptable, parallelized ping-like utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fping on CentOS 8.

What is `fping`

fping is a ping-like program which can determine the accessibility of multiple hosts using ICMP echo requests. fping is designed for parallelized monitoring of large numbers of systems, and is developed with ease of use in scripting in mind.

We can use yum or dnf to install fping on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fping.

Install fping on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install fping

Install fping on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install fping

How To Uninstall fping on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove fping

fping Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/e67e262857b79e30a91a18a6139d9ded4a728f
/usr/sbin/fping
/usr/share/doc/fping
/usr/share/doc/fping/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/licenses/fping
/usr/share/licenses/fping/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/fping.8.gz

References

fping website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fping on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.