How To Install containernetworking-plugins on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install containernetworking-plugins in Fedora 36. containernetworking-plugins is Libraries for writing CNI plugin

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install containernetworking-plugins on Fedora 36.

What is containernetworking-plugins

The CNI (Container Network Interface) project consists of a specification and libraries for writing plugins to configure network interfaces in Linux containers, along with a number of supported plugins. CNI concerns itself only with network connectivity of containers and removing allocated resources when the container is deleted.

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

Install containernetworking-plugins 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 containernetworking-plugins using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install containernetworking-plugins

Install containernetworking-plugins 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 containernetworking-plugins using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install containernetworking-plugins

How To Uninstall containernetworking-plugins on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the containernetworking-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove containernetworking-plugins

containernetworking-plugins Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/41ec1e063cebc00294dab8876a9123bab7642f
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/65a26284788ae40c4b00c831abdbc26e72752c
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/ca63c3597130682eb6be30c64b57ebcff262d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/8bc4bd5a5e83dd9d6bf95f1d3c79326bb31fa2
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/e35e205983d38927bfa382b54a3d28e6a4822d
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/afc3cae83052aba4a84b47d4cdd3a98cc359b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/c9e35b54c49473c980b8c3dd6760f7d0654aca
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/95d9f9e93bc7d8ba70ae10317120540655019a
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/460f3f260327f3bc79b28fce318020d24c1e91
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/5f3821a575cc22ccc0e785c3c94112b1943817
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/574de4dc054647d4707b27bafe232d5778ff75
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/d40533eb452d6f286e4eece147cea5b48ab186
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/d793689ca1a3e3e77f3062e378748de2c27831
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/16643b701e53a1c57891d8936c04dbbc93bc1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/aa6202cce6cba0e5281d7e6e74f1bf9b763bae
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/c004673caec4cd1ad2a3fb60275a814059e898
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/91636dad939ab497fa44406acde99fac7c29c1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cni-dhcp.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cni-dhcp.socket
/usr/libexec/cni
/usr/libexec/cni/bandwidth
/usr/libexec/cni/bridge
/usr/libexec/cni/dhcp
/usr/libexec/cni/firewall
/usr/libexec/cni/host-device
/usr/libexec/cni/host-local
/usr/libexec/cni/ipvlan
/usr/libexec/cni/loopback
/usr/libexec/cni/macvlan
/usr/libexec/cni/portmap
/usr/libexec/cni/ptp
/usr/libexec/cni/sample
/usr/libexec/cni/sbr
/usr/libexec/cni/static
/usr/libexec/cni/tuning
/usr/libexec/cni/vlan
/usr/libexec/cni/vrf
/usr/share/doc/containernetworking-plugins
/usr/share/doc/containernetworking-plugins/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/containernetworking-plugins/OWNERS.md
/usr/share/doc/containernetworking-plugins/README.md
/usr/share/doc/containernetworking-plugins/RELEASING.md
/usr/share/licenses/containernetworking-plugins
/usr/share/licenses/containernetworking-plugins/LICENSE

References

Summary

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