How To Install iperf3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf3.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. iperf3.i686 is Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `iperf3.i686`

Iperf is a tool to measure maximum TCP bandwidth, allowing the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, data-gram loss.

We can use yum to install iperf3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iperf3.i686.

Install iperf3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install iperf3.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install iperf3.i686

How To Uninstall iperf3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the iperf3.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove iperf3.i686

iperf3.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/iperf3
/usr/lib/libiperf.so.0
/usr/lib/libiperf.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/iperf3-3.1.7
/usr/share/doc/iperf3-3.1.7/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/iperf3-3.1.7/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/iperf3-3.1.7/README.md
/usr/share/doc/iperf3-3.1.7/RELEASE_NOTES
/usr/share/man/man1/iperf3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/libiperf.3.gz

References

iperf3.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install iperf3.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.