How To Install iperf3 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf3 on Rocky Linux 8. iperf3 is Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf3 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is iperf3

Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, data-gram loss.

We can use yum or dnf to install iperf3 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iperf3.

Install iperf3 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 iperf3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install iperf3

Install iperf3 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 iperf3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iperf3

How To Uninstall iperf3 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the iperf3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove iperf3

iperf3 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/iperf3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/2f42e20c14d1c78226832838954eedc0c3f481
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/630384fe703e1e29f9afccb700d0af72a8f687
/usr/lib64/libiperf.so.0
/usr/lib64/libiperf.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/iperf3
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/README.md
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/RELEASE_NOTES
/usr/share/man/man1/iperf3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libiperf.3.gz
/usr/bin/iperf3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/252dd95855ed4ea159e3f3491e38973f8ed7d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/06d4bea6ee931f2388002054a878fbe7662bdb
/usr/lib/libiperf.so.0
/usr/lib/libiperf.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/iperf3
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/README.md
/usr/share/doc/iperf3/RELEASE_NOTES
/usr/share/man/man1/iperf3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libiperf.3.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf3 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.