How To Install hitch on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hitch on Fedora 34.
What is hitch
hitch is a network proxy that terminates TLS/SSL connections and forwards the unencrypted traffic to some backend. It is designed to handle 10s of thousands of connections efficiently on multicore machines.
We can use yum or dnf to install hitch on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hitch.
Install hitch 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 hitch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hitch
Install hitch 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 hitch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hitch
How To Uninstall hitch on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the hitch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hitch
hitch Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/hitch
/etc/hitch/hitch.conf
/etc/systemd/system/hitch.service.d/limit.conf
/run/hitch/hitch.pid
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/415bb4721752c1a64e39bdeabe064e010ebece
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hitch.service
/usr/sbin/hitch
/usr/share/doc/hitch
/usr/share/doc/hitch/CHANGES.rst
/usr/share/doc/hitch/README.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/architecture.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/certificates.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/configuration.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/hitch.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/hitch/installation.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/proxy-protocol.md
/usr/share/doc/hitch/vhosts.md
/usr/share/licenses/hitch
/usr/share/licenses/hitch/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man5/hitch.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/hitch.8.gz
/var/lib/hitch
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hitch on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.