How to Resolve “No package iperf available.” on CentOS 7

Mostly the massage “No package iperf available” will appears when the package is not available in CentOS 7 Base/default repositories and the massages will display like below:

[root@linuxcnf ~]# yum install iperf Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile  * base: centos.mirrors.estointernet.in  * extras: centos.mirrors.estointernet.in  * updates: centos.mirrors.estointernet.in No package iperf available. Error: Nothing to do [root@linuxcnf ~]#

This article describes How to Resolve “No package iperf available.” on CentOS 7 by installing EPEL Repository.

Step 1. Enabling EPEL Repository: Follow the article How to install EPEL Repository on CentOS 7 to enable EPEL repository on CentOS 7

Step 2. Package Installation: Once the EPEL repository is installed successfully, try to install the package iperf again and hoping it will be installed successfully.

[root@linuxcnf ~]# yum install iperf -y Loaded plugins: fastestmirror ……………………….. Installed:   iperf.x86_64 0:2.0.13-1.el7 Complete! [root@linuxcnf ~]#

Step 3. Verify the installation: Run the following command to verify the installation:

[root@linuxcnf ~]# iperf --version iperf version 2.0.13 (21 Jan 2019) pthreads [root@linuxcnf ~]#

Done!!! Now package is installed successfully from EPEL Repository.