How To Install gsmartcontrol on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsmartcontrol on Fedora 34.
What is gsmartcontrol
GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive’s SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.
We can use yum or dnf to install gsmartcontrol on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gsmartcontrol.
Install gsmartcontrol 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 gsmartcontrol using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gsmartcontrol
Install gsmartcontrol 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 gsmartcontrol using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gsmartcontrol
How To Uninstall gsmartcontrol on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gsmartcontrol package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gsmartcontrol
gsmartcontrol Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/gsmartcontrol-root
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/21136f9841c1e34dfbe9797910b95167f18837
/usr/sbin/gsmartcontrol
/usr/share/applications/gsmartcontrol.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/AUTHORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_boost_1_0.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_bsd-ac.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_bsd-ucb.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_gpl2.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_gpl3.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_gsmartcontrol.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_hz.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_unlicense.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/LICENSE_zlib.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib/cron-based_noadmin
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib/cron-based_noadmin/README
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib/cron-based_noadmin/cron_gather_smart.sh
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib/cron-based_noadmin/crontab.example
/usr/share/doc/gsmartcontrol/contrib/cron-based_noadmin/smartctl_subst.sh
/usr/share/gsmartcontrol
/usr/share/gsmartcontrol/icon_cddvd.png
/usr/share/gsmartcontrol/icon_hdd.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/licenses/gsmartcontrol
/usr/share/licenses/gsmartcontrol/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/gsmartcontrol-root.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gsmartcontrol.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/gsmartcontrol.appdata.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/gsmartcontrol.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/gsmartcontrol.xpm
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gsmartcontrol.policy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gsmartcontrol on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
