How To Install wbox on Fedora 34

wbox is HTTP testing tool and configuration-less HTTP server

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.