How To Install uredir on Fedora 34

uredir is UDP port redirector

Introduction

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

What is uredir

uredir is a small Linux daemon to redirect UDP connections. It can be used to forward connections on small and embedded systems that do not have (or want to use) iptables or nftables.

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

Install uredir 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 uredir using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install uredir

Install uredir 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 uredir using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install uredir

How To Uninstall uredir on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove uredir

uredir Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/uredir
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/4edf9f1de118d933c4831f7c64f7293b5791fc
/usr/share/doc/uredir
/usr/share/doc/uredir/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/uredir/README.md
/usr/share/doc/uredir/design.md
/usr/share/licenses/uredir
/usr/share/licenses/uredir/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/uredir.1.gz

References

Summary

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