How To Install nettee on Fedora 34

nettee is Network “tee” program

Introduction

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

What is nettee

nettee is a network “tee” program. It can typically transfer data between N nodes at (nearly) the full bandwidth provided by the switch which connects them. It is handy for cloning nodes or moving large database files.

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

Install nettee 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 nettee using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nettee

Install nettee 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 nettee using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nettee

How To Uninstall nettee on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove nettee

nettee Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/nettee
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/4822a2a2c6367b3531ba7d10820f66ed2a2e4d
/usr/share/doc/nettee
/usr/share/doc/nettee/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/nettee/README.TXT
/usr/share/doc/nettee/SI_METHOD1.TXT
/usr/share/doc/nettee/SI_METHOD2.TXT
/usr/share/doc/nettee/nettee_man.html
/usr/share/doc/nettee/pdist_file.sh
/usr/share/doc/nettee/pdist_gunzip_detar.sh
/usr/share/doc/nettee/pdist_shell.sh
/usr/share/doc/nettee/pdist_store.sh
/usr/share/man/man1/nettee.1.gz

References

Summary

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