How To Install wput on Fedora 34

wput is A utility for uploading files or whole directories to remote ftp-servers

Introduction

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

What is wput

Wput is a command-line ftp-client that looks like wget but instead of downloading, uploads files or whole directories to remote ftp-servers.

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

Install wput 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 wput using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wput

Install wput 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 wput using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wput

How To Uninstall wput on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wput

wput Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/wput
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/90ac2b98444dbe69c75ccb5fe54d04897603b2
/usr/share/doc/wput
/usr/share/doc/wput/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/wput/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wput/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/wput/TODO
/usr/share/doc/wput/doc
/usr/share/doc/wput/doc/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/wput/doc/USAGE.examples
/usr/share/doc/wput/doc/USAGE.resumehandling
/usr/share/doc/wput/doc/USAGE.urlhandling
/usr/share/doc/wput/doc/passwordfile
/usr/share/doc/wput/doc/wput.1
/usr/share/doc/wput/doc/wput.1.gz
/usr/share/doc/wput/doc/wputrc
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/wput.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/wput.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/wput.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/wput.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/wput.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh/LC_MESSAGES/wput.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/wput.1.gz

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Summary

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