How To Install dhcping on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcping on Fedora 34.
What is dhcping
Dhcping allows the system administrator to check if a remote DHCP server is still functioning.
We can use yum or dnf to install dhcping on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dhcping.
Install dhcping 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 dhcping using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dhcping
Install dhcping 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 dhcping using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dhcping
How To Uninstall dhcping on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the dhcping package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dhcping
dhcping Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/dhcping
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/06a47ebed21942314bb8bde207e9be269772bc
/usr/share/doc/dhcping
/usr/share/doc/dhcping/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/dhcping/CONTACT
/usr/share/licenses/dhcping
/usr/share/licenses/dhcping/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/dhcping.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dhcping on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.