How To Install darkstat on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install darkstat on Fedora 34.
What is darkstat
darkstat is a network traffic analyzer. It’s basically a packet sniffer which runs as a background process on a cable/DSL router and gathers all sorts of useless but interesting statistics.
We can use yum or dnf to install darkstat on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install darkstat.
Install darkstat 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 darkstat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install darkstat
Install darkstat 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 darkstat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install darkstat
How To Uninstall darkstat on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the darkstat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove darkstat
darkstat Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/sysconfig/darkstat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/7751591e9d81b6af8337cacc0c4f161a87b20a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/darkstat.service
/usr/sbin/darkstat
/usr/share/doc/darkstat
/usr/share/doc/darkstat/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/darkstat/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/darkstat/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/darkstat/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/darkstat/README
/usr/share/doc/darkstat/export-format.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/darkstat.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install darkstat on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.