How To Install fastback on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fastback on Fedora 34.
What is fastback
Fastback is a command line tool to upload files to a ticketing system, or other configurable URL (FTP,SCP,…).
We can use yum or dnf to install fastback on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fastback.
Install fastback 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 fastback using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fastback
Install fastback 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 fastback using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fastback
How To Uninstall fastback on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the fastback package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fastback
fastback Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/fastback.conf
/usr/bin/fastback
/usr/bin/fastback-unload-receipt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/ffb59318699f2e01b10f34007d68238d18b3cb
/usr/share/doc/fastback
/usr/share/doc/fastback/FIXME
/usr/share/doc/fastback/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fastback on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.