How To Install fping on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fping in Fedora 36. fping is Scriptable, parallelized ping-like utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fping on Fedora 36.

What is `fping`

fping is a ping-like program which can determine the accessibility of multiple hosts using ICMP echo requests. fping is designed for parallelized monitoring of large numbers of systems, and is developed with ease of use in scripting in mind.

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

Install fping 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 fping using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fping

Install fping 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 fping using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fping

How To Uninstall fping on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove fping

fping Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/f94785a138e303ae372e47930a105462a40e9a
/usr/sbin/fping
/usr/share/doc/fping
/usr/share/doc/fping/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/licenses/fping
/usr/share/licenses/fping/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/fping.8.gz

References

fping website

Summary

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