How To Install pipebench on Fedora 34

pipebench is Measures the speed of STDIN/STDOUT communication

Introduction

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

What is pipebench

Measures the speed of a pipe, by sitting in the middle passing the data along to the next process. See the included README for example usage.

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

Install pipebench 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 pipebench using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pipebench

Install pipebench 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 pipebench using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pipebench

How To Uninstall pipebench on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pipebench

pipebench Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pipebench
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/479434c28cc4ca7d1f77cca626ca27a865ff91
/usr/share/doc/pipebench
/usr/share/doc/pipebench/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/pipebench/README
/usr/share/man/man1/pipebench.1.gz

References

Summary

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