How To Install iodine on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install iodine in Fedora 36. iodine is Solution to tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server

Introduction

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

What is `iodine`

iodine lets you tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server. This can be usable in different situations where internet access is firewalled, but DNS queries are allowed. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Windows and needs a TUN/TAP device. The bandwidth is asymmetrical with limited upstream and up to 1 Mbit/s downstream. This is meta-package to install both client and server. It also contain three documantation files

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

Install iodine 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 iodine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iodine

Install iodine 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 iodine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iodine

How To Uninstall iodine on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove iodine

iodine Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/iodine
/usr/share/doc/iodine/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/iodine/README
/usr/share/doc/iodine/TODO

References

iodine website

Summary

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