How To Install ratools on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ratools in Fedora 36. ratools is Framework for IPv6 Router Advertisements

Introduction

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

What is ratools

Ratools is a fast, dynamic, multi-threading framework for creating, modifying and sending IPv6 Router Advertisements (RA).

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

Install ratools 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 ratools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ratools

Install ratools 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 ratools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ratools

How To Uninstall ratools on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ratools

ratools Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/bash_completion.d/ractl
/usr/bin/ractl
/usr/bin/rad
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/4059bde8a6c0a7bc6cb2e9bac7bcf7d57ebf7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/f9c31e5cc244d06b864cf8537ef781f330c05c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ratools-rad.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ratools-rad.socket
/usr/share/doc/ratools
/usr/share/doc/ratools/README.md
/usr/share/doc/ratools/example.conf
/usr/share/licenses/ratools
/usr/share/licenses/ratools/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/ractl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rad.8.gz

References

Summary

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