How To Install wondershaper on Fedora 34

wondershaper is Simple Network Shaper

Introduction

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

What is wondershaper

Many cable-modem and ADSL users experience horrifying latency while uploading or downloading. They also notice that uploading hampers downloading greatly. The Wondershaper neatly addresses these issues, allowing users of a router with a Wondershaper to continue using SSH over a loaded link happily.

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

Install wondershaper 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 wondershaper using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wondershaper

Install wondershaper 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 wondershaper using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wondershaper

How To Uninstall wondershaper on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wondershaper

wondershaper Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/sbin/wondershaper
/usr/share/doc/wondershaper
/usr/share/doc/wondershaper/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wondershaper/README
/usr/share/licenses/wondershaper
/usr/share/licenses/wondershaper/COPYING

References

Summary

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