How To Install prettyping on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install prettyping in Fedora 36. prettyping is Compact, colorful ping tool for your terminal

Introduction

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

What is prettyping

prettyping runs the standard ping in background and parses its output, showing ping responses in a graphical way at the terminal, by using colors and Unicode characters. Don’t have support for UTF-8 in your terminal? No problem, you can disable it and use standard ASCII characters instead. Don’t have support for colors? No problem, you can also disable them.

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

Install prettyping 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 prettyping using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install prettyping

Install prettyping 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 prettyping using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install prettyping

How To Uninstall prettyping on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove prettyping

prettyping Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/prettyping
/usr/share/licenses/prettyping
/usr/share/licenses/prettyping/LICENSE

References

Summary

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