How To Install ebnetd on Fedora 34

ebnetd is EBNET protocol server

Introduction

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

What is ebnetd

EBNET is a protocol to communicate to the EB library that is a C library for accessing “CD-ROM books”. This package contains a EBNET protocol server.

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

Install ebnetd 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 ebnetd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ebnetd

Install ebnetd 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 ebnetd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ebnetd

How To Uninstall ebnetd on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ebnetd

ebnetd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/lib/systemd/system/ebnetd-instances.target
/lib/systemd/system/ebnetd.socket
/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/4844e0e51cd9f81cfed1c2f505026856d7bffa
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/57d6385ee6a576ee9e9d9fef03d3813693558f
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/84a6a74bb0f35421d26bc8fa41988040f16dd4
/usr/libexec/ebnstat
/usr/sbin/ebncheck
/usr/sbin/ebncontrol
/usr/sbin/ebnetd

References

Summary

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