How To Install etherecho on Fedora 34

etherecho is Broadcast a message to all machines in the same network segment

Introduction

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

What is etherecho

etherecho broadcasts a message to all machines in the same network segment, and listens for other messages from other etherecho servers.

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

Install etherecho 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 etherecho using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install etherecho

Install etherecho 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 etherecho using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install etherecho

How To Uninstall etherecho on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove etherecho

etherecho Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/etherecho
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/416183a3f9d023a5fd0853e6e4775305d54368
/usr/share/doc/etherecho
/usr/share/doc/etherecho/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/etherecho
/usr/share/licenses/etherecho/LICENSE.md

References

Summary

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