How To Install buffer on Fedora 34

buffer is This program speeds up writing tapes on remote tape drives

Introduction

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

What is buffer

This is a program designed to speed up writing tapes on remote tape drives. When this program is put “in the pipe”, two processes are started. One process reads from standard-in and the other writes to standard-out. Both processes communicate via shared memory.

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

Install buffer 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 buffer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install buffer

Install buffer 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 buffer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install buffer

How To Uninstall buffer on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove buffer

buffer Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/buffer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/150298654f9354b41d0796a31cacfb2bde62d8
/usr/share/doc/buffer
/usr/share/doc/buffer/README
/usr/share/licenses/buffer
/usr/share/licenses/buffer/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/buffer.1.gz

References

Summary

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