How To Install fuse on Fedora 34

fuse is File System in Userspace (FUSE) v2 utilities

Introduction

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

What is fuse

With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program. This package contains the FUSE v2 userspace tools to mount a FUSE filesystem.

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

Install fuse 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 fuse using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fuse

Install fuse 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 fuse using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fuse

How To Uninstall fuse on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fuse

fuse Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fusermount
/usr/bin/ulockmgr_server
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/bbd02ade4d4f04d874fe39911ab783943e0cd6
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/ec41e2fa42ccd152e486ce59ffd84a5050a96d
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/95638e17b17923173fae2f269c30e52d26e412
/usr/sbin/mount.fuse
/usr/share/doc/fuse
/usr/share/doc/fuse/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fuse/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fuse/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fuse/README.NFS
/usr/share/doc/fuse/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fuse
/usr/share/licenses/fuse/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/fusermount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ulockmgr_server.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mount.fuse.8.gz

References

Summary

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