How To Install veritysetup on Fedora 34

veritysetup is A utility for setting up dm-verity volumes

Introduction

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

What is veritysetup

The veritysetup package contains a utility for setting up disk verification using dm-verity kernel module.

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

Install veritysetup 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 veritysetup using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install veritysetup

Install veritysetup 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 veritysetup using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install veritysetup

How To Uninstall veritysetup on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove veritysetup

veritysetup Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/b5a8e7a58a583b72cfcf0a7a6abde81ba6a5f8
/usr/sbin/veritysetup
/usr/share/licenses/veritysetup
/usr/share/licenses/veritysetup/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/veritysetup.8.gz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/d514d786eb6a7416ecea243ed56bc3142374b9
/usr/sbin/veritysetup
/usr/share/licenses/veritysetup
/usr/share/licenses/veritysetup/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/veritysetup.8.gz

References

Summary

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