How To Install tcping on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tcping on Rocky Linux 8. tcping is Check of TCP connection to a given IP/Port

Introduction

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

What is `tcping`

tcping does a TCP connect to the given ip/port combination. The user can specify a timeout in seconds. This is useful in shell scripts running in firewalled environments. Often SYNs are just being dropped by firewalls, thus connection establishment will be retried several times (for minutes) until a TCP timeout is reached. With tcping it is possible to check first if the desired port is reachable and then start connection establishment.

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

Install tcping 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 tcping using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tcping

Install tcping 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 tcping using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tcping

How To Uninstall tcping on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove tcping

tcping Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/tcping
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/ebbfd2d9fde79b120644b7044eab0cc0ec8f83
/usr/share/doc/tcping
/usr/share/doc/tcping/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/tcping/README

References

tcping website

Summary

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