How To Install xpl2gpl on CentOS 8

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 tcptrace

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install tcptrace

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

What is xpl2gpl and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 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 xpl2gpl on CentOS 8. 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 xpl2gpl on CentOS 8 using dnf

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

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install xpl2gpl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tcptrace

Install xpl2gpl on CentOS 8 using yum

Because xpl2gpl is available in CentOS 8’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 xpl2gpl package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tcptrace

How to upgrade (update) a single package xpl2gpl using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like xpl2gpl in this example you should use the following command:

yum update tcptrace

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade tcptrace

How to Upgrade xpl2gpl on CentOS 8 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 tcptrace

How To remove xpl2gpl from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the xpl2gpl package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove tcptrace

Extra info and code examples

Tcptrace is a tool for analyzing and reporting on tcpdump (or other libpcap) dump files. It can summarize the data or generate graph data for use with the gnuplot tool from the gnuplot package. Graph data can be created for throughput, RTT, time sequences, segment size, and cwin.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install xpl2gpl using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the xpl2gpl from CentOS 8.

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