How To Install ipv6gen on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipv6gen on Fedora 34.
What is ipv6gen
ipv6gen is a tool which generates lists of IPv6 prefixes using the process described by RFC 3531.
We can use yum or dnf to install ipv6gen on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipv6gen.
Install ipv6gen 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 ipv6gen using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ipv6gen
Install ipv6gen 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 ipv6gen using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ipv6gen
How To Uninstall ipv6gen on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ipv6gen package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ipv6gen
ipv6gen Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/check-overlap
/usr/bin/ipv6gen
/usr/share/doc/ipv6gen
/usr/share/doc/ipv6gen/Changelog.txt
/usr/share/licenses/ipv6gen
/usr/share/licenses/ipv6gen/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/ipv6gen.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipv6gen on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.