How To Install aoetools on Fedora 34

aoetools is ATA over Ethernet Tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aoetools on Fedora 34.

What is aoetools

The aoetools are programs that assist in using ATA over Ethernet on systems with version 2.6 and newer Linux kernels.

We can use yum or dnf to install aoetools on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aoetools.

Install aoetools on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aoetools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aoetools

Install aoetools on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aoetools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aoetools

How To Uninstall aoetools on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove aoetools

aoetools Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/7366e101d06841577ee4bf77ac48b95ebd164c
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/cac96b3eff446194ef7112ec4f1c85121ac625
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/1c6be28491ecc57704188826e5972e082a930e
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-aoe.rules
/usr/sbin/aoe-discover
/usr/sbin/aoe-flush
/usr/sbin/aoe-interfaces
/usr/sbin/aoe-mkdevs
/usr/sbin/aoe-mkshelf
/usr/sbin/aoe-revalidate
/usr/sbin/aoe-sancheck
/usr/sbin/aoe-stat
/usr/sbin/aoe-version
/usr/sbin/aoecfg
/usr/sbin/aoeping
/usr/sbin/coraid-update
/usr/share/doc/aoetools
/usr/share/doc/aoetools/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/aoetools/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/aoetools/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/aoetools/README
/usr/share/doc/aoetools/devnodes.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/aoe-discover.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aoe-flush.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aoe-interfaces.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aoe-mkdevs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aoe-mkshelf.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aoe-revalidate.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aoe-sancheck.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aoe-stat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aoe-version.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aoecfg.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aoeping.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/coraid-update.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aoetools on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.