How To Install fping on Fedora 34

fping is Scriptable, parallelized ping-like utility

Introduction

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

What is `fping`

fping is a ping-like program which can determine the accessibility of multiple hosts using ICMP echo requests. fping is designed for parallelized monitoring of large numbers of systems, and is developed with ease of use in scripting in mind.

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

Install fping 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 fping using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fping

Install fping 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 fping using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fping

How To Uninstall fping on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fping

fping Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/8f8f969c3c08fb975af2f30787082b4138004d
/usr/sbin/fping
/usr/share/doc/fping
/usr/share/doc/fping/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/licenses/fping
/usr/share/licenses/fping/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/fping.8.gz

References

fping website

Summary

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