How To Install practrand on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install practrand on Fedora 34.
What is practrand
Software package for the Random number generation & testing. A suite of statistical tests for fast PRNGs. Multithreaded for speed, command-line tools for automation, no upper limit on data size. A variety of C++ pseudo-random number generators with well-designed interfaces aimed at practical uses, not just research. Features * A convenient & powerful interface to RNG algorithms * A variety of fast high quality RNG algorithms * Fast & effective statistical tests for RNGs
We can use yum or dnf to install practrand on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install practrand.
Install practrand 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 practrand using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install practrand
Install practrand 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 practrand using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install practrand
How To Uninstall practrand on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the practrand package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove practrand
practrand Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/practrand-RNG_benchmark
/usr/bin/practrand-RNG_output
/usr/bin/practrand-RNG_test
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/b1c52ee61265516442c305ac8ea63b376cd629
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/f30832955974945e681e418a5f9773d0d76054
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/29ccdd00b5439507e57d641fd7cc91b14ec11f
/usr/share/doc/practrand
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/PractRand.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/RNG_engines.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/RNG_entropy_pools.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/RNG_interface_variations.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/RNG_multithreading.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/RNG_parallel.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/RNG_speed.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/RNG_usage.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/Tests_batteries.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/Tests_engines.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/Tests_overview.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/Tests_performance.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/Tests_results.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/Tests_usage.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/index.html
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/installation.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/portability.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/practrand-RNG_test.examples
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/to_do.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/tools.txt
/usr/share/doc/practrand/doc/versions.txt
/usr/share/licenses/practrand
/usr/share/licenses/practrand/license.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/practrand-RNG_benchmark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/practrand-RNG_output.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/practrand-RNG_test.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install practrand on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
