How To Install conman on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install conman on Fedora 34.
What is conman
ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users. It currently supports local serial devices and remote terminal servers (via the telnet protocol). Its features include - mapping symbolic names to console devices - logging all output from a console device to file - supporting monitor (R/O), interactive (R/W), and broadcast (W/O) modes of console access - allowing clients to join or steal console “write” privileges - executing Expect scripts across multiple consoles in parallel
We can use yum or dnf to install conman on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install conman.
Install conman 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 conman using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install conman
Install conman 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 conman using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install conman
How To Uninstall conman on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the conman package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove conman
conman Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/conman.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/conman
/usr/bin/conman
/usr/bin/conmen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/387ff73236cbd1f4cd04d0de0e21004f83908d
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/43235df71c1743a7b0bae55178bcef0875f354
/usr/lib/systemd/system/conman.service
/usr/sbin/conmand
/usr/share/conman
/usr/share/conman/alpha.exp
/usr/share/conman/conman.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec
/usr/share/conman/exec/README
/usr/share/conman/exec/cyclades-ssh.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/cyclades-telnet.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/hp-ilo.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/hp-lo100.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ibm-bc.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ipmiconsole.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ipmitool.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ssh.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/sun-elom.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/sun-ilom.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/sun-v20z-v40z.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman
/usr/share/doc/conman/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/conman/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/conman/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/README
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/boot_alpha.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/mac.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/rmc.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/shell_cmd_1.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/shell_cmd_n.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/srm.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/wtf.exp
/usr/share/licenses/conman
/usr/share/licenses/conman/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/conman.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/conman.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/conmand.8.gz
/var/log/conman
/var/log/conman.old
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install conman on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.