How To Install ddiskit on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ddiskit on Fedora 34.
What is ddiskit
Ddiskit is a little framework for simplifying creation of proper Driver Update Disks (DUD) used for providing new or updated out-of-tree kernel modules.
We can use yum or dnf to install ddiskit on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ddiskit.
Install ddiskit 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 ddiskit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ddiskit
Install ddiskit 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 ddiskit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ddiskit
How To Uninstall ddiskit on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ddiskit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ddiskit
ddiskit Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/ddiskit.config
/usr/bin/ddiskit
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ddiskit-3.6-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ddiskit-3.6-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ddiskit-3.6-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ddiskit-3.6-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ddiskit-3.6-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ddiskit
/usr/share/ddiskit
/usr/share/ddiskit/ddiskit.config
/usr/share/ddiskit/keyrings
/usr/share/ddiskit/keyrings/rh-release
/usr/share/ddiskit/keyrings/rh-release/fd431d51.key
/usr/share/ddiskit/profiles
/usr/share/ddiskit/profiles/default
/usr/share/ddiskit/profiles/rh-release
/usr/share/ddiskit/profiles/rh-testing
/usr/share/ddiskit/templates
/usr/share/ddiskit/templates/config
/usr/share/ddiskit/templates/spec
/usr/share/doc/ddiskit
/usr/share/doc/ddiskit/README
/usr/share/licenses/ddiskit
/usr/share/licenses/ddiskit/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ddiskit.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ddiskit on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.