How To Install tcputils on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcputils on Fedora 34.
What is tcputils
This is a collection of programs to facilitate TCP programming in shell-scripts. There is also a small library which makes it somewhat easier to create TCP/IP sockets.
We can use yum or dnf to install tcputils on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcputils.
Install tcputils 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 tcputils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcputils
Install tcputils 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 tcputils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcputils
How To Uninstall tcputils on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the tcputils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcputils
tcputils Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/getpeername
/usr/bin/mini-inetd
/usr/bin/tcpbug
/usr/bin/tcpconnect
/usr/bin/tcplisten
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/41a50af6f9be44631e980d106a79690ec0520e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/cae39cbcad19c1c7bc2a87e865506266ba31a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/13db6782725500875972e502d002f81e1f2d02
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/2b67249d333caca5c1d854943134e3bd3a2004
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/557262824bcbc6f89e2ea181e6623564dfb873
/usr/share/doc/tcputils
/usr/share/doc/tcputils/README
/usr/share/man/man1/getpeername.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mini-inetd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpbug.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpconnect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcplisten.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcputils on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.