How To Install socat on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install socat
on Fedora 34.
What is socat
Socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two independent data channels. Each of these data channels may be a file, pipe, device (serial line etc. or a pseudo terminal), a socket (UNIX, IP4, IP6 - raw, UDP, TCP), an SSL socket, proxy CONNECT connection, a file descriptor (stdin etc.), the GNU line editor (readline), a program, or a combination of two of these.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install socat
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install socat.
Install socat 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 socat
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install socat
Install socat 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 socat
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install socat
How To Uninstall socat on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the socat
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove socat
socat Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/filan
/usr/bin/procan
/usr/bin/socat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/50a89b3d5ffd8386290241c10fa2877c9808c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/a47a45e543e3d0dcd1240d540891b7490847ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/cc5d1f419ab8975f8b9eb7296f75eeb69234cf
/usr/share/doc/socat
/usr/share/doc/socat/BUGREPORTS
/usr/share/doc/socat/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/socat/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/socat/COPYING.OpenSSL
/usr/share/doc/socat/DEVELOPMENT
/usr/share/doc/socat/EXAMPLES
/usr/share/doc/socat/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/socat/PORTING
/usr/share/doc/socat/README
/usr/share/doc/socat/SECURITY
/usr/share/doc/socat/daemon.sh
/usr/share/doc/socat/ftp.sh
/usr/share/doc/socat/gatherinfo.sh
/usr/share/doc/socat/mail.sh
/usr/share/doc/socat/proxy.sh
/usr/share/doc/socat/proxyecho.sh
/usr/share/doc/socat/readline-test.sh
/usr/share/doc/socat/readline.sh
/usr/share/doc/socat/socat_buildscript_for_android.sh
/usr/share/doc/socat/socks4a-echo.sh
/usr/share/doc/socat/socks4echo.sh
/usr/share/doc/socat/test.sh
/usr/share/man/man1/filan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/procan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/socat.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install socat
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.