How To Install pscp.pssh on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install pssh

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install pssh

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is pscp.pssh and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install pscp.pssh on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install pscp.pssh on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install pscp.pssh using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pssh

Install pscp.pssh on Fedora 34 using yum

Because pscp.pssh is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install pscp.pssh package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pssh

How to upgrade (update) a single package pscp.pssh using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like pscp.pssh in this example you should use the following command:

yum update pssh

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade pssh

How to Upgrade pscp.pssh on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update pssh

How To remove pscp.pssh from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the pscp.pssh package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove pssh

Extra info and code examples

pssh provides a number of commands for executing against a group of computers, using SSH. It's most useful for operating on clusters of homogenously-configured hosts. The package contains: - Parallel ssh (parallel-ssh, upstream calls it pssh), executes commands on multiple hosts in parallel - Parallel scp (parallel-scp, upstream calls it pscp), copies files to multiple remote hosts in parallel - Parallel rsync (parallel-rsync, upstream calls it prsync), efficiently copies files to multiple hosts in parallel - Parallel nuke (parallel-nuke, upstream calls it pnuke), kills processes on multiple remote hosts in parallel - Parallel slurp (parallel-slurp, upstream calls it pslurp), copies files from multiple remote hosts to a central host in parallel These tools are good for controlling large collections of nodes, where faster alternatives such as gexec and pcp are not available.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install pscp.pssh using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the pscp.pssh from Fedora 34.

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