How To Install reptyr on Fedora 34

reptyr is Attach a running process to a new terminal

Introduction

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

What is reptyr

reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use reptyr to grab it, and then kill the ssh session and head on home.

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

Install reptyr 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 reptyr using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install reptyr

Install reptyr 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 reptyr using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install reptyr

How To Uninstall reptyr on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove reptyr

reptyr Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/bash_completion.d/reptyr
/usr/bin/reptyr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/61b2f10cc49c41296ab17e4ae6ccdcfdd72577
/usr/share/doc/reptyr
/usr/share/doc/reptyr/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/reptyr/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/reptyr/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/reptyr
/usr/share/licenses/reptyr/COPYING
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/reptyr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/reptyr.1.gz

References

Summary

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