How To Install gsmartcontrol on Fedora 36
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/).