How To Install ledmon on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ledmon on Fedora 34.
What is ledmon
The ledmon and ledctl are user space applications design to control LED associated with each slot in an enclosure or a drive bay. There are two types of system (Activity LED, Locate LED, Fail LED). User must have root privileges to use this application.
We can use yum or dnf to install ledmon on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ledmon.
Install ledmon 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 ledmon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ledmon
Install ledmon 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 ledmon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ledmon
How To Uninstall ledmon on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ledmon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ledmon
ledmon Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/73f70999992e307f4ff115ced6a6182b41e997
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/6e6ba1028c2f963c2638c645502c67a2ae4fd8
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ledmon.service
/usr/sbin/ledctl
/usr/sbin/ledmon
/usr/share/doc/ledmon
/usr/share/doc/ledmon/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ledmon/README.md
/usr/share/man/man5/ledmon.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ledctl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ledmon.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ledmon on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
