How To Install wbox on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wbox on Fedora 34.
What is wbox
Wbox aims to help you having fun while testing HTTP related stuff. You can use it to perform many tasks, including the following. * Benchmarking how much time it takes to generate content for your web application. * Web server and web application stressing. * Testing virtual domains configuration without the need to alter your local resolver. * Check if your redirects are working correctly emitting the right HTTP code. * Test if the HTTP compression is working and if it is actually serving pages faster. * Use it as a configuration-less HTTP server to share files!
We can use yum or dnf to install wbox on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wbox.
Install wbox 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 wbox using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wbox
Install wbox 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 wbox using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wbox
How To Uninstall wbox on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the wbox package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wbox
wbox Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/wbox
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/d5a908b911de52abdf10c8de59609d20125d25
/usr/share/doc/wbox
/usr/share/doc/wbox/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wbox/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/wbox/README
/usr/share/licenses/wbox
/usr/share/licenses/wbox/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/wbox.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wbox on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.