How To Install ipgetter2 on Fedora 34

ipgetter2 is Utility to fetch your external IP address

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipgetter2 on Fedora 34.

What is ipgetter2

Utility to fetch your external IP address.

We can use yum or dnf to install ipgetter2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipgetter2.

Install ipgetter2 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 ipgetter2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ipgetter2

Install ipgetter2 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 ipgetter2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipgetter2

How To Uninstall ipgetter2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the ipgetter2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ipgetter2

ipgetter2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ipgetter2

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipgetter2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.