How To Install bdii on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bdii on Fedora 34.
What is bdii
The Berkeley Database Information Index (BDII) consists of a standard LDAP database which is updated by an external process. The update process obtains LDIF from a number of sources and merges them. It then compares this to the contents of the database and creates an LDIF file of the differences. This is then used to update the database.
We can use yum or dnf to install bdii on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bdii.
Install bdii 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 bdii using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bdii
Install bdii 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 bdii using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bdii
How To Uninstall bdii on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the bdii package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bdii
bdii Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/bdii
/etc/bdii/BDII.schema
/etc/bdii/DB_CONFIG
/etc/bdii/DB_CONFIG_top
/etc/bdii/bdii-slapd.conf
/etc/bdii/bdii-top-slapd.conf
/etc/bdii/bdii.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/bdii
/etc/sysconfig/bdii
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bdii-slapd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bdii.service
/usr/sbin/bdii-update
/usr/share/bdii
/usr/share/bdii/bdii-slapd-start
/usr/share/doc/bdii
/usr/share/doc/bdii/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bdii/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bdii
/usr/share/licenses/bdii/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/bdii/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/bdii-update.1.gz
/var/lib/bdii
/var/lib/bdii/gip
/var/lib/bdii/gip/ldif
/var/lib/bdii/gip/ldif/default.ldif
/var/lib/bdii/gip/plugin
/var/lib/bdii/gip/provider
/var/log/bdii
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bdii on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
