How To Install ceph on Fedora 34

ceph is User space components of the Ceph file system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceph on Fedora 34.

What is ceph

Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object, block and file system storage.

We can use yum or dnf to install ceph on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ceph.

Install ceph 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 ceph using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ceph

Install ceph 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 ceph using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ceph

How To Uninstall ceph on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the ceph package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ceph

ceph Package Contents on Fedora 34

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ceph on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.