How To Install conmux on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install conmux on Fedora 34.
What is conmux
Conmux is a console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users. It currently supports IBM’s blade and hmc servers. Its features include - driver interface abstracts how to connect to the console - helpers for dealing with autobooting - can support additional commands for dealing with power management - allows multiple clients to be connected to the same console
We can use yum or dnf to install conmux on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install conmux.
Install conmux 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 conmux using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install conmux
Install conmux 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 conmux using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install conmux
How To Uninstall conmux on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the conmux package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove conmux
conmux Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/conmux
/etc/init.d/conmux
/etc/logrotate.d/conmux
/usr/bin/conmux-attach
/usr/sbin/conmux-registry
/usr/sbin/conmuxd
/usr/share/conmux
/usr/share/conmux/drivers
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/blade
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/hmc
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/reboot-netfinity
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/reboot-newisys
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/reboot-numaq
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/reboot-rsa
/usr/share/conmux/drivers/reboot-rsa2
/usr/share/conmux/helpers
/usr/share/conmux/helpers/autoboot-helper
/usr/share/conmux/helpers/tickle-helper
/usr/share/doc/conmux
/usr/share/doc/conmux/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/conmux/README
/usr/share/doc/conmux/examples
/usr/share/doc/conmux/examples/README
/usr/share/doc/conmux/examples/command.cf
/usr/share/doc/conmux/examples/direct.cf
/usr/share/doc/conmux/examples/socket.cf
/var/log/conmux
/var/log/conmux.old
/var/run/conmux
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install conmux on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
