Network tool binaries to do Flathub Trouble Shooting

[fenris]

Hi,
I would like to suggest to have “curl” and “mtr” binaries in the next EOS release. This 2 binaries required to do the following as below:

mtr -rw -c 50 dl.flathub.org

curl -svo /dev/null -H’Fastly-Debug:1’ https://dl.flathub.org/beta-repo/repo_testfile

For advance user for sure this can be done using podman but i’m considering for end user (non-technical individual) how they want to the this troubleshooting or other related network troubleshooting in the future.

just my 2 cent

Regards,
Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman

[fenris]

@fenris

-rw -c 50 dl.flathub.org

thanks to @wjt ,
this can be done by pulling docker image from repository
https://hub.docker.com/r/praqma/network-multitool

podman pull praqma/network-multitool
podman run -d network-multitool
podman exec -it 5ff8e6964925 bash
bash-5.0# ls /usr/bin/ | grep curl
curl
bash-5.0# ls /usr/sbin/ | grep mtr
mtr
mtr-packet
bash-5.0#

• do please change 5ff8e6964925 to your Container ID
• to get Container ID , run

podman ps -a

then run the curl and mtr command above

[wjt]

Great! How do you actually run those commands having pulled that container?

[fenris]

I’ve updated my post how to run those command