How To Install meg on Fedora 34

meg is Fetch many paths for many hosts

Introduction

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

What is meg

Fetch many paths for many hosts without killing the hosts.

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

Install meg 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 meg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install meg

Install meg 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 meg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install meg

How To Uninstall meg on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove meg

meg Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/meg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/c4bbd7dffe1cc1935f5351b4582c8d0302d341
/usr/share/doc/meg
/usr/share/doc/meg/README.mkd
/usr/share/licenses/meg
/usr/share/licenses/meg/LICENSE

References

Summary

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