How To Install tcptrack on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcptrack on Fedora 34.
What is tcptrack
tcptrack is a sniffer which displays information about TCP connections it sees on a network interface. It passively watches for connections on the network interface, keeps track of their state and displays a list of connections in a manner similar to the unix ’top’ command. It displays source and destination addresses and ports, connection state, idle time, and bandwidth usage
We can use yum or dnf to install tcptrack on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcptrack.
Install tcptrack 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 tcptrack using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcptrack
Install tcptrack 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 tcptrack using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcptrack
How To Uninstall tcptrack on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the tcptrack package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcptrack
tcptrack Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/tcptrack
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/db9c4d0ba7ac499f0501124f4b45a6daef289a
/usr/share/doc/tcptrack
/usr/share/doc/tcptrack/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tcptrack/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tcptrack/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tcptrack/README
/usr/share/doc/tcptrack/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/tcptrack
/usr/share/licenses/tcptrack/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/tcptrack.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcptrack on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
