How To Install uperf on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uperf on CentOS 8.
What is uperf
Network performance tool that supports modelling and replay of various networking patterns.
We can use yum or dnf to install uperf on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install uperf.
Install uperf 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 uperf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install uperf
Install uperf 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 uperf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install uperf
How To Uninstall uperf on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the uperf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove uperf
uperf Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/uperf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/3f4bc9fcb3f9738cdca4b1aa6a7a34ef7de6d2
/usr/share/doc/uperf
/usr/share/doc/uperf/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/uperf/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/uperf/README
/usr/share/licenses/uperf
/usr/share/licenses/uperf/COPYING
/usr/share/uperf
/usr/share/uperf/client.pem
/usr/share/uperf/connect.xml
/usr/share/uperf/iperf.xml
/usr/share/uperf/ldap.xml
/usr/share/uperf/netperf.xml
/usr/share/uperf/oltpnet.xml
/usr/share/uperf/oraclerac.xml
/usr/share/uperf/sctp.xml
/usr/share/uperf/server.pem
/usr/share/uperf/specweb.xml
/usr/share/uperf/ssl.xml
/usr/share/uperf/telnet.xml
/usr/share/uperf/two-hosts.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uperf on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.