How To Install nwdiag on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nwdiag on Fedora 34.
What is nwdiag
nwdiag and its family generate diagram images from simply text file. Features - Generates beautiful diagram images from simple text format (similar to graphviz’s DOT format) - Layouts diagram elements automatically - Embeds to many documentations; Sphinx, Trac, Redmine and some wikis - Supports many types of diagrams - logical network diagram (with this package) - block diagram (with the blockdiag package) - sequence diagram (with the seqdiag package) - activity diagram (with the actdiag package) Enjoy documentation with nwdiag !
We can use yum or dnf to install nwdiag on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nwdiag.
Install nwdiag 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 nwdiag using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nwdiag
Install nwdiag 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 nwdiag using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nwdiag
How To Uninstall nwdiag on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the nwdiag package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nwdiag
nwdiag Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/nwdiag
/usr/bin/packetdiag
/usr/bin/rackdiag
/usr/share/doc/nwdiag
/usr/share/doc/nwdiag/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/nwdiag
/usr/share/licenses/nwdiag/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/nwdiag.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/packetdiag.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rackdiag.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nwdiag on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
