How To Install crun on Fedora 34

crun is OCI runtime written in C

Introduction

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

What is crun

crun is a runtime for running OCI containers

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

Install crun 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 crun using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install crun

Install crun 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 crun using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install crun

How To Uninstall crun on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove crun

crun Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/crun
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/c1a5d2ca92fb199c4325a4d6f3bc74eb4f1b32
/usr/share/licenses/crun
/usr/share/licenses/crun/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/crun.1.gz
/usr/bin/crun
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/b7dc523632ab15d919ceca0440dfc29d8582d6
/usr/share/licenses/crun
/usr/share/licenses/crun/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/crun.1.gz

References

Summary

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