How To Install udpcast on Fedora 34

udpcast is UDP broadcast file distribution and installation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install udpcast on Fedora 34.

What is udpcast

Command-line client for UDP sender and receiver. Udpcast is an application for multicasting data to multiple targets.

We can use yum or dnf to install udpcast on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install udpcast.

Install udpcast 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 udpcast using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install udpcast

Install udpcast 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 udpcast using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install udpcast

How To Uninstall udpcast on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the udpcast package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove udpcast

udpcast Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/de3c62fb11e21db4d7adacdbdc507ffed0fce3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/66f096e8cccbd20abeda351f1b2cd35a764844
/usr/sbin/udp-receiver
/usr/sbin/udp-sender
/usr/share/doc/udpcast
/usr/share/doc/udpcast/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/udpcast/Changelog.txt
/usr/share/doc/udpcast/cmd.html
/usr/share/man/man1/udp-receiver.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/udp-sender.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install udpcast on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.