How To Install traceroute on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install traceroute on Fedora 34.
What is traceroute
The traceroute utility displays the route used by IP packets on their way to a specified network (or Internet) host. Traceroute displays the IP number and host name (if possible) of the machines along the route taken by the packets. Traceroute is used as a network debugging tool. If you’re having network connectivity problems, traceroute will show you where the trouble is coming from along the route. Install traceroute if you need a tool for diagnosing network connectivity problems.
We can use yum or dnf to install traceroute on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install traceroute.
Install traceroute 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 traceroute using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install traceroute
Install traceroute 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 traceroute using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install traceroute
How To Uninstall traceroute on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the traceroute package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove traceroute
traceroute Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/tcptraceroute
/usr/bin/traceroute
/usr/bin/traceroute6
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/5b8ad2bbe6f8f0ed5edbb326c8965c2b6e81b3
/usr/share/doc/traceroute
/usr/share/doc/traceroute/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/traceroute/README
/usr/share/doc/traceroute/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/traceroute
/usr/share/licenses/traceroute/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/tcptraceroute.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/traceroute.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/traceroute6.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install traceroute on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.