How To Install gsmartcontrol on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gsmartcontrol in Fedora 36. gsmartcontrol is Graphical user interface for smartctl

Introduction

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

What is gsmartcontrol

GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive’s SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

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

Install gsmartcontrol 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 gsmartcontrol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gsmartcontrol

Install gsmartcontrol 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 gsmartcontrol using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gsmartcontrol

How To Uninstall gsmartcontrol on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove gsmartcontrol

gsmartcontrol Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/gsmartcontrol-root
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/c82b461bc6a904e291eca89af3e7c1927b813d
/usr/sbin/gsmartcontrol
/usr/share/applications/gsmartcontrol.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/AUTHORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_boost_1_0.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_bsd-ac.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_bsd-ucb.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_gpl2.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_gpl3.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_gsmartcontrol.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_hz.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_unlicense.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_zlib.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib/cron-based_noadmin
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib/cron-based_noadmin/README
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib/cron-based_noadmin/cron_gather_smart.sh
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib/cron-based_noadmin/crontab.example
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib/cron-based_noadmin/smartctl_subst.sh
/usr/share/gsmartcontrol
/usr/share/gsmartcontrol/icon_cddvd.png
/usr/share/gsmartcontrol/icon_hdd.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/licenses/gsmartcontrol
/usr/share/licenses/gsmartcontrol/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/gsmartcontrol-root.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gsmartcontrol.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/gsmartcontrol.appdata.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/gsmartcontrol.xpm
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gsmartcontrol.policy

References

Summary

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