How To Install flow-tools-docs on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install flow-tools-docs in Fedora 36. flow-tools-docs is HTML and other redundant docs for flow-tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flow-tools-docs on Fedora 36.

What is flow-tools-docs

Flow-tools is library and a collection of programs used to collect, send, process, and generate reports from NetFlow data. The tools can be used together on a single server or distributed to multiple servers for large deployments. The flow-toools library provides an API for development of custom applications for NetFlow export versions 1,5,6 and the 14 currently defined version 8 subversions. A Perl and Python interface have been contributed and are included in the distribution. This package contains additional documentation, such as man pages in html format.

We can use yum or dnf to install flow-tools-docs on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flow-tools-docs.

Install flow-tools-docs on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install flow-tools-docs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flow-tools-docs

Install flow-tools-docs on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install flow-tools-docs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flow-tools-docs

How To Uninstall flow-tools-docs on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the flow-tools-docs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove flow-tools-docs

flow-tools-docs Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/ChangeLog.old
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/SECURITY
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/TODO
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-capture.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-cat.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-dscan.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-expire.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-export.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-fanout.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-filter.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-gen.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-header.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-import.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-log2rrd.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-mask.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-merge.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-nfilter.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-print.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-receive.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-report.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-rpt2rrd.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-rptfmt.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-send.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-split.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-stat.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-tag.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-tools-examples.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-tools.html
/usr/share/doc/flow-tools-docs/flow-xlate.html

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install flow-tools-docs on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).