How To Install miniupnpd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install miniupnpd on Fedora 34.
What is miniupnpd
The MiniUPnP daemon is a UPnP Internet Gateway Device. UPnP and NAT-PMP are used to improve internet connectivity for devices behind a NAT router. Any peer to peer network application such as games, IM, etc. can benefit from a NAT router supporting UPnP and/or NAT-PMP.
We can use yum or dnf to install miniupnpd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install miniupnpd.
Install miniupnpd 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 miniupnpd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install miniupnpd
Install miniupnpd 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 miniupnpd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install miniupnpd
How To Uninstall miniupnpd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the miniupnpd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove miniupnpd
miniupnpd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/miniupnpd
/etc/miniupnpd/ip6tables_init.sh
/etc/miniupnpd/ip6tables_removeall.sh
/etc/miniupnpd/iptables_init.sh
/etc/miniupnpd/iptables_removeall.sh
/etc/miniupnpd/miniupnpd.conf
/etc/miniupnpd/miniupnpd_functions.sh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/6cb7d224aa5fa638360809a1507387eb33aeb5
/usr/lib/systemd/system/miniupnpd.service
/usr/sbin/miniupnpd
/usr/share/doc/miniupnpd
/usr/share/doc/miniupnpd/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/miniupnpd/README
/usr/share/licenses/miniupnpd
/usr/share/licenses/miniupnpd/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/miniupnpd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install miniupnpd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
