How To Install plotnetcfg on Fedora 34

plotnetcfg is A tool to plot network configuration

Introduction

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

What is plotnetcfg

plotnetcfg is a tool that output a diagram of network configuration on the host in a form suitable for graphviz.

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

Install plotnetcfg 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 plotnetcfg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install plotnetcfg

Install plotnetcfg 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 plotnetcfg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plotnetcfg

How To Uninstall plotnetcfg on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove plotnetcfg

plotnetcfg Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/4fb970a3d6b8401d5361db33f053e591fbf899
/usr/sbin/plotnetcfg
/usr/share/doc/plotnetcfg
/usr/share/doc/plotnetcfg/README
/usr/share/licenses/plotnetcfg
/usr/share/licenses/plotnetcfg/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/plotnetcfg-json.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/plotnetcfg.8.gz

References

Summary

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