How To Install devio on Fedora 34

devio is Read and write utility for block devices

Introduction

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

What is devio

devio is a command line utility intended to read and write on block devices. The primary difference between devio and other command line utilities, such as dd and cat, is that it is not stream based - it writes directly into the object rather than reading and writing a stream of data.

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

Install devio 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 devio using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install devio

Install devio 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 devio using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install devio

How To Uninstall devio on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove devio

devio Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/devio
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/42c72652c28a7d822d7ecaf431dd0ecaffd5c0
/usr/share/doc/devio
/usr/share/doc/devio/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/devio/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/devio/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/devio/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/devio/README
/usr/share/man/man1/devio.1.gz

References

Summary

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