How To Install iperf on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf
on Fedora 34.
What is iperf
Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install iperf
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iperf.
Install iperf 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 iperf
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install iperf
Install iperf 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 iperf
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install iperf
How To Uninstall iperf on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the iperf
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove iperf
iperf Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/iperf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/a2d022830db2eb7bb5c4411267eff2045422f2
/usr/share/doc/iperf
/usr/share/doc/iperf/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/iperf/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/iperf/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/iperf/README
/usr/share/doc/iperf/dast.gif
/usr/share/doc/iperf/index.html
/usr/share/doc/iperf/ui_license.html
/usr/share/man/man1/iperf.1.gz
/usr/bin/iperf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/1fcd122e744534f3c62bbde2f3cfb6ba1a84e2
/usr/share/doc/iperf
/usr/share/doc/iperf/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/iperf/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/iperf/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/iperf/README
/usr/share/doc/iperf/dast.gif
/usr/share/doc/iperf/index.html
/usr/share/doc/iperf/ui_license.html
/usr/share/man/man1/iperf.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.