How To Install akmods on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install akmods
on Fedora 34.
What is akmods
Akmods startup script will rebuild akmod packages during system boot while its background daemon will build them for kernels right after they were installed.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install akmods
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install akmods.
Install akmods on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install akmods
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install akmods
Install akmods on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install akmods
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install akmods
How To Uninstall akmods on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the akmods
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove akmods
akmods Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/akmodsposttrans
/usr/lib/kernel/install.d/95-akmodsposttrans.install
/usr/lib/systemd/system/akmods-shutdown.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/akmods.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/akmods
/usr/sbin/akmods-ostree-post
/usr/sbin/akmods-shutdown
/usr/sbin/akmodsbuild
/usr/share/doc/akmods
/usr/share/doc/akmods/README
/usr/share/licenses/akmods
/usr/share/licenses/akmods/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/akmods.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/akmodsbuild.1.gz
/usr/src/akmods
/var/cache/akmods
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install akmods
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.