How To Install tcpreen on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpreen on Fedora 34.
What is tcpreen
TCPreen is a simple tool to monitor and analyze data transmitted between clients and servers through connection-oriented streams data such as a TCP sessions; it supports TCP over either IPv4 or IPv6. This tool focuses on the data stream (software/socket layer), not on the lower level transmission protocol as packet sniffers do.
We can use yum or dnf to install tcpreen on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcpreen.
Install tcpreen 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 tcpreen using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcpreen
Install tcpreen 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 tcpreen using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcpreen
How To Uninstall tcpreen on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the tcpreen package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcpreen
tcpreen Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/tcpreen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/7383b0d5dd34bcb2b9b4ca28d48f3ec0b1b03c
/usr/share/doc/tcpreen
/usr/share/doc/tcpreen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tcpreen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tcpreen/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tcpreen/README
/usr/share/doc/tcpreen/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/tcpreen/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/tcpreen
/usr/share/licenses/tcpreen/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tcpreen.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/tcpreen.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpreen.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpreen on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
