How To Install balance on Fedora 34

balance is TCP load-balancing proxy server with round robin and failover mechanisms

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install balance on Fedora 34.

What is balance

Balance is a simple but powerful generic tcp proxy with round robin load balancing and failover mechanisms. The program behaviour can be controlled at runtime using a simple command line syntax.

We can use yum or dnf to install balance on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install balance.

Install balance on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install balance

Install balance on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install balance

How To Uninstall balance on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove balance

balance Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/650249bd9181529bc07419484e58f110cf30d8
/usr/sbin/balance
/usr/share/doc/balance
/usr/share/doc/balance/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/balance/README
/usr/share/man/man1/balance.1.gz
/var/run/balance

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install balance on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.