How To Install fctxpd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fctxpd on Fedora 34.
What is fctxpd
The purpose of this daemon is to add FC network intelligence in host and host intelligence in FC network. This daemon would inter-operate with Brocade FC fabric in order to improve the response time of the MPIO failover. In future, it can also collect the congestion related details and perform workload analysis, and provide QOS at application level by inter-operating with application performance profiling software.
We can use yum or dnf to install fctxpd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fctxpd.
Install fctxpd 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 fctxpd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fctxpd
Install fctxpd 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 fctxpd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fctxpd
How To Uninstall fctxpd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the fctxpd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fctxpd
fctxpd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/981a69663845f4726eaf1447a488807ccb45d9
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fctxpd.service
/usr/sbin/fctxpd
/usr/share/doc/fctxpd
/usr/share/doc/fctxpd/README
/usr/share/licenses/fctxpd
/usr/share/licenses/fctxpd/GPL-2.0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fctxpd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.