How To Install avahi on Fedora 34

avahi is Local network service discovery Local network service discovery

Introduction

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

What is `avahi`

Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network – this means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in MacOS X (branded ‘Rendezvous’, ‘Bonjour’ and sometimes ‘ZeroConf’) and is very convenient. avahi 0.8 9.fc34 x86_64 292 k avahi-0.8-9.fc34.src.rpm fedora Local network service discovery http LGPLv2+ Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network – this means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in MacOS X (branded ‘Rendezvous’, ‘Bonjour’ and sometimes ‘ZeroConf’) and is very convenient.

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

Install avahi 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 avahi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install avahi

Install avahi 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 avahi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install avahi

How To Uninstall avahi on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove avahi

avahi Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/avahi
/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf
/etc/avahi/etc
/etc/avahi/etc/localtime
/etc/avahi/hosts
/etc/avahi/services
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/0840b2ee0707c94dca50dc53f8e885eb57cbba
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/73948c498aaaadd5886ac87149010b21132e94
/usr/lib/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.socket
/usr/lib64/avahi
/usr/lib64/libavahi-core.so.7
/usr/lib64/libavahi-core.so.7.1.0
/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon
/usr/share/avahi
/usr/share/avahi/avahi-service.dtd
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.AddressResolver.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.DomainBrowser.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.EntryGroup.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.HostNameResolver.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.RecordBrowser.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.ServiceBrowser.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.ServiceResolver.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.ServiceTypeBrowser.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
/usr/share/doc/avahi
/usr/share/doc/avahi/API-CHANGES-0.6
/usr/share/doc/avahi/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/avahi/COMPAT-LAYERS
/usr/share/doc/avahi/DBUS-API
/usr/share/doc/avahi/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/avahi/MALLOC
/usr/share/doc/avahi/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/avahi/README
/usr/share/doc/avahi/TODO
/usr/share/doc/avahi/avahi-poll.dia
/usr/share/doc/avahi/example.service
/usr/share/doc/avahi/overview.dia
/usr/share/doc/avahi/server-states.dia
/usr/share/doc/avahi/sftp-ssh.service
/usr/share/doc/avahi/ssh.service
/usr/share/locale/ach/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_NZ/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/man/man5/avahi-daemon.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/avahi.hosts.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/avahi.service.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/avahi-daemon.8.gz
/var/run/avahi-daemon
/etc/avahi
/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf
/etc/avahi/etc
/etc/avahi/etc/localtime
/etc/avahi/hosts
/etc/avahi/services
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/82d54f78b7e807df68be17107ec18bea5d1b64
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/2f29d496e34c563992819431d03b92e16478fa
/usr/lib/avahi
/usr/lib/libavahi-core.so.7
/usr/lib/libavahi-core.so.7.1.0
/usr/lib/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.socket
/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon
/usr/share/avahi
/usr/share/avahi/avahi-service.dtd
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.AddressResolver.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.DomainBrowser.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.EntryGroup.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.HostNameResolver.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.RecordBrowser.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.Server.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.ServiceBrowser.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.ServiceResolver.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Avahi.ServiceTypeBrowser.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
/usr/share/doc/avahi
/usr/share/doc/avahi/API-CHANGES-0.6
/usr/share/doc/avahi/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/avahi/COMPAT-LAYERS
/usr/share/doc/avahi/DBUS-API
/usr/share/doc/avahi/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/avahi/MALLOC
/usr/share/doc/avahi/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/avahi/README
/usr/share/doc/avahi/TODO
/usr/share/doc/avahi/avahi-poll.dia
/usr/share/doc/avahi/example.service
/usr/share/doc/avahi/overview.dia
/usr/share/doc/avahi/server-states.dia
/usr/share/doc/avahi/sftp-ssh.service
/usr/share/doc/avahi/ssh.service
/usr/share/locale/ach/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_NZ/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/avahi.mo
/usr/share/man/man5/avahi-daemon.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/avahi.hosts.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/avahi.service.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/avahi-daemon.8.gz
/var/run/avahi-daemon

References

[avahi website](http://avahi.org http://avahi.org)

Summary

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