How To Install idle3-tools on Fedora 36

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install idle3-tools on Fedora 36.

What is idle3-tools

Idle3-tools provides a linux/unix utility that can disable, get and set the value of the infamous idle3 timer found on recent Western Digital Hard Disk Drives. It can be used as an alternative to the official wdidle3.exe proprietary utility, without the need to reboot in a DOS environement. A power off/on cycle of the drive will still be mandatory for new settings to be taken into account. Idle3-tools is an independant project, unrelated in any way to Western Digital Corp. WARNING LEVEL INFORMATION OF YOUR HARDDRIVE. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

We can use yum or dnf to install idle3-tools on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install idle3-tools.

Install idle3-tools 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 idle3-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install idle3-tools

Install idle3-tools 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 idle3-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install idle3-tools

How To Uninstall idle3-tools on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the idle3-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove idle3-tools

idle3-tools Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/c7f9d4be6a64264856a5b49ab6a1b73888b974
/usr/sbin/idle3ctl
/usr/share/doc/idle3-tools
/usr/share/doc/idle3-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/idle3ctl.8.gz

References

• idle3-tools website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install idle3-tools on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).