How To Install nuttcp on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nuttcp on Rocky Linux 8.
What is nuttcp
nuttcp is a network performance measurement tool intended for use by network and system managers. Its most basic usage is to determine the raw TCP (or UDP) network layer throughput by transferring memory buffers from a source system across an interconnecting network to a destination system, either transferring data for a specified time interval, or alternatively transferring a specified number of buffers. In addition to reporting the achieved network throughput in Mbps, nuttcp also provides additional useful information related to the data transfer such as user, system, and wall-clock time, transmitter and receiver CPU utilization, and loss percentage (for UDP transfers).
We can use yum or dnf to install nuttcp on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nuttcp.
Install nuttcp 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 nuttcp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nuttcp
Install nuttcp 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 nuttcp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nuttcp
How To Uninstall nuttcp on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the nuttcp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nuttcp
nuttcp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/nuttcp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/20e5386d37671439778673bd59d88688c40b93
/usr/lib/systemd/system/nuttcp.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/nuttcp
/usr/share/doc/nuttcp/README
/usr/share/doc/nuttcp/examples.txt
/usr/share/doc/nuttcp/nuttcp.html
/usr/share/doc/nuttcp/nuttcp4
/usr/share/doc/nuttcp/nuttcp6
/usr/share/man/man8/nuttcp.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nuttcp on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.