How To Install gofer on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gofer on Fedora 34.
What is gofer
Gofer provides an extensible, light weight, universal python agent. The gofer core agent is a python daemon (service) that provides infrastructure for exposing a remote API and for running Recurring Actions. The APIs contributed by plug-ins are accessible by Remote Method Invocation (RMI). The transport for RMI is AMQP using an AMQP message broker. Actions are also provided by plug-ins and are executed at the specified interval.
We can use yum or dnf to install gofer on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gofer.
Install gofer 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 gofer using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gofer
Install gofer 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 gofer using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gofer
How To Uninstall gofer on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gofer package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gofer
gofer Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/gofer
/etc/gofer/agent.conf
/etc/gofer/conf.d
/etc/gofer/plugins
/etc/gofer/plugins/demo.conf
/etc/sysconfig/goferd
/usr/bin/goferd
/usr/lib/gofer/plugins
/usr/lib/systemd/system/goferd.service
/usr/share/doc/gofer
/usr/share/doc/gofer/LICENSE
/usr/share/gofer/plugins
/usr/share/gofer/plugins/demo.py
/usr/share/man/man1/goferd.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gofer on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.