How To Install hans on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hans on Fedora 34.
What is hans
Hans makes it possible to tunnel IPv4 through ICMP echo packets, so you could call it a ping tunnel. This can be useful when you find yourself in the situation that your Internet access is firewalled, but pings are allowed. Hans runs on Linux as a client and a server. It runs on Mac OS X, iPhone/iPod touch, FreeBSD and OpenBSD as a client only. You probably want also install packages hans-client or hans-server or both
We can use yum or dnf to install hans on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hans.
Install hans 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 hans using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hans
Install hans 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 hans using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hans
How To Uninstall hans on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the hans package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hans
hans Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/0b8e3aa4a676fa08cbffad20092f962a4d089e
/usr/sbin/hans
/usr/share/doc/hans
/usr/share/doc/hans/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/hans/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/hans
/usr/share/licenses/hans/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hans on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
