How To Install daxctl on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl
on Fedora 34.
What is daxctl
The daxctl utility provides enumeration and provisioning commands for the Linux kernel Device-DAX facility. This facility enables DAX mappings of performance / feature differentiated memory without need of a filesystem.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install daxctl
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install daxctl.
Install daxctl 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 daxctl
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install daxctl
Install daxctl 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 daxctl
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install daxctl
How To Uninstall daxctl on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the daxctl
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove daxctl
daxctl Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/daxctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/db2e0edc85f01aaf50d872448384011a91d96c
/usr/share/daxctl/daxctl.conf
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl/CC0-1.0
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl/GPL-2.0
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl/MIT
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-create-device.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-destroy-device.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-disable-device.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-enable-device.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-migrate-device-model.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-offline-memory.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-online-memory.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-reconfigure-device.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.