How To Install conmux on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install conmux in Fedora 36. conmux is ConMux - The Console Multiplexor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install conmux on Fedora 36.

What is conmux

Conmux is a console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users. It currently supports IBM’s blade and hmc servers. Its features include - driver interface abstracts how to connect to the console - helpers for dealing with autobooting - can support additional commands for dealing with power management - allows multiple clients to be connected to the same console

We can use yum or dnf to install conmux on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install conmux.

Install conmux on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install conmux using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install conmux

Install conmux on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install conmux using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install conmux

How To Uninstall conmux on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove conmux

conmux Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/conmux
/etc/init.d/conmux
/etc/logrotate.d/conmux
/usr/bin/conmux-attach
/usr/sbin/conmux-registry
/usr/sbin/conmuxd
/usr/share/conmux
/usr/share/conmux/drivers
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/blade
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/hmc
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/reboot-netfinity
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/reboot-newisys
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/reboot-numaq
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/reboot-rsa
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/reboot-rsa2
/usr/share/conmux/helpers
/usr/share/conmux/helpers/autoboot-helper
/usr/share/conmux/helpers/tickle-helper
/usr/share/doc/conmux
/usr/share/doc/conmux/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/conmux/README
/usr/share/doc/conmux/examples
/usr/share/doc/conmux/examples/README
/usr/share/doc/conmux/examples/command.cf
/usr/share/doc/conmux/examples/direct.cf
/usr/share/doc/conmux/examples/socket.cf
/var/log/conmux
/var/log/conmux.old
/var/run/conmux

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install conmux on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).