How To Install fping on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fping on Rocky Linux 8. fping is Scriptable, parallelized ping-like utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fping on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fping.

Install fping on Rocky Linux 8 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 Rocky Linux 8 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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove fping

fping Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/e67e262857b79e30a91a18a6139d9ded4a728f
/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

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fping on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.