How To Install mosh on Fedora 34

mosh is Mobile shell that supports roaming and intelligent local echo

Introduction

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

What is mosh

Mosh is a remote terminal application that supports - intermittent network connectivity, - roaming to different IP address without dropping the connection, and - intelligent local echo and line editing to reduce the effects of “network lag” on high-latency connections.

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

Install mosh 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 mosh using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mosh

Install mosh 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 mosh using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mosh

How To Uninstall mosh on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove mosh

mosh Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/mosh
/usr/bin/mosh-client
/usr/bin/mosh-server
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/8f39a9088324134ad7b537d20be1e4124a73a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/c0e9e43ab5186cd2b55314636232157ac4298a
/usr/share/doc/mosh
/usr/share/doc/mosh/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mosh/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/mosh
/usr/share/licenses/mosh/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/mosh-client.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mosh-server.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mosh.1.gz

References

Summary

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