How To Install paris-traceroute on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install paris-traceroute on CentOS 7.
What is paris-traceroute
Paris Traceroute is a fundamental upgrade to the standard Traceroute tool that exists on all of the major operating systems. Standard Traceroute was not designed to take into account the presence of load balancing routers, which are widely deployed in today’s Internet, both at the core and at its edges. As a result, standard Traceroute is not aware that there are often multiple paths between a source and a destination in the Internet paths will split at a load balancing router at one point along the route and then reconverge some hops later. Standard traceroute is incapable of furnishing this information to its users and instead reports what it states to be a single path but is instead a confusing mixture of pieces of multiple paths. Paris Traceroute is aware of the multiple paths and can report on any single one of them accurately, as well as on all of them.
We can use yum or dnf to install paris-traceroute on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install paris-traceroute.
Install paris-traceroute on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install paris-traceroute using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install paris-traceroute
Install paris-traceroute on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install paris-traceroute using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install paris-traceroute
How To Uninstall paris-traceroute on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the paris-traceroute package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove paris-traceroute
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install paris-traceroute on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
