How To Install kstart on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kstart
on Fedora 34.
What is kstart
k5start is a modified version of kinit which can use keytabs to authenticate, can run as a daemon and wake up periodically to refresh a ticket, and can run single commands with its own authentication credentials and refresh those credentials until the command exits.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install kstart
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kstart.
Install kstart 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 kstart
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kstart
Install kstart 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 kstart
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kstart
How To Uninstall kstart on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the kstart
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kstart
kstart Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/k5start
/usr/bin/krenew
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/855557203df30e6864fdbabdb30788e4462322
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/310dcec63268bdae73a353cb7ae0ff3bf60cd1
/usr/share/doc/kstart
/usr/share/doc/kstart/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/kstart/README
/usr/share/licenses/kstart
/usr/share/licenses/kstart/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/k5start.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/krenew.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kstart
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.