How To Install rusers on Fedora 34

rusers is Displays the users logged into machines on the local network

Introduction

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

What is rusers

The rusers program allows users to find out who is logged into various machines on the local network. The rusers command produces output similar to who, but for the specified list of hosts or for all machines on the local network. Install rusers if you need to keep track of who is logged into your local network.

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

Install rusers 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 rusers using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rusers

Install rusers 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 rusers using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rusers

How To Uninstall rusers on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rusers

rusers Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/rup
/usr/bin/rusers
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/075fed73d7afb2f65bc88760f7863c684f8341
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/3e5a933bae4375801569b16b7ebd141ba8d455
/usr/share/doc/rusers
/usr/share/doc/rusers/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rusers/README
/usr/share/man/man1/rup.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rusers.1.gz

References

Summary

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