How To Install finger-server on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install finger-server on Fedora 36.
What is finger-server
Finger is a utility which allows users to see information about system users (login name, home directory, name, how long they’ve been logged in to the system, etc.). The finger-server package includes a standard finger server. The server daemon (fingerd) must be started using systemctl to receive finger requests. You should install finger-server if your system is used by multiple users and you’d like finger information to be available.
We can use yum or dnf to install finger-server on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install finger-server.
Install finger-server 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 finger-server using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install finger-server
Install finger-server 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 finger-server using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install finger-server
How To Uninstall finger-server on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the finger-server package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove finger-server
finger-server Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/d0b7f0c53a3329ac4f24d1635c78af769ba981
/usr/lib/systemd/system/finger.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/in.fingerd
/usr/share/doc/finger-server
/usr/share/doc/finger-server/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/fingerd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/in.fingerd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install finger-server on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).