How To Install iperf3 on Fedora 34

iperf3 is Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf3 on Fedora 34.

What is `iperf3`

Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, data-gram loss. iperf3 3.9 6.fc34 x86_64 110 k iperf3-3.9-6.fc34.src.rpm fedora Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance https BSD Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, data-gram loss.

We can use yum or dnf to install iperf3 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iperf3.

Install iperf3 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 iperf3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iperf3

Install iperf3 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 iperf3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iperf3

How To Uninstall iperf3 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the iperf3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove iperf3

iperf3 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/iperf3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/3e9b3c2fce9f637854e54d40f63a3fcd093a0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/1dffb37bf75e97b37974866615936818fb2282
/usr/lib/libiperf.so.0
/usr/lib/libiperf.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/iperf3
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/README.md
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/RELNOTES.md
/usr/share/man/man1/iperf3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libiperf.3.gz
/usr/bin/iperf3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/3270de1c8f02a37b2a8c74860f011cc6f2099f
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/b20d56337cfdde76f17bc08abc322abe9ff46e
/usr/lib64/libiperf.so.0
/usr/lib64/libiperf.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/iperf3
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/README.md
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/RELNOTES.md
/usr/share/man/man1/iperf3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libiperf.3.gz

References

[iperf3 website](https://github.com/esnet/iperf https://github.com/esnet/iperf)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf3 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.