How To Install imgbased on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imgbased on Fedora 34.
What is imgbased
This tool enforces a special usage pattern for LVM. Basically this is about having read-only bases and writable layers atop.
We can use yum or dnf to install imgbased on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install imgbased.
Install imgbased 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 imgbased using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install imgbased
Install imgbased 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 imgbased using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install imgbased
How To Uninstall imgbased on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the imgbased package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove imgbased
imgbased Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/dnf/plugins/imgbased-persist.conf
/etc/lvm/profile/imgbased-pool.profile
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/imgbased-persist.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/imgbased-persist.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf-plugins/imgbased-persist.py
/usr/lib/systemd/system/imgbase-setup.service
/usr/sbin/imgbase
/usr/share/doc/imgbased
/usr/share/doc/imgbased/README.md
/usr/share/doc/imgbased/imgbase.8.asc
/usr/share/doc/imgbased/imgbase.asc
/usr/share/imgbased/hooks.d
/usr/share/imgbased/hooks.d/persistence
/usr/share/imgbased/hooks.d/rebase
/usr/share/licenses/imgbased
/usr/share/licenses/imgbased/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/imgbase.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imgbased on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
