How To Install flamethrower on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flamethrower on Fedora 34.
What is flamethrower
Flamethrower is a small, fast, configurable tool for functional testing, benchmarking, and stress testing DNS servers and networks. It supports IPv4, IPv6, UDP and TCP, and has a modular system for generating queries used in the tests. It was built as an alternative to dnsperf, and many of the command line options are compatible.
We can use yum or dnf to install flamethrower on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flamethrower.
Install flamethrower 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 flamethrower using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flamethrower
Install flamethrower 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 flamethrower using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flamethrower
How To Uninstall flamethrower on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the flamethrower package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flamethrower
flamethrower Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/flame
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/a46f2314f24d391cf55dbb6821a829da8dabce
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/ac27ed9bacc8cb84a8bb5e9cbcc3d9eafac17d
/usr/lib64/libflamecore.so
/usr/share/doc/flamethrower
/usr/share/doc/flamethrower/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/flamethrower
/usr/share/licenses/flamethrower/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/flame.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flamethrower on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.