How To Install hostapd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hostapd on Fedora 34.
What is hostapd
hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server. hostapd is designed to be a “daemon” program that runs in the back-ground and acts as the backend component controlling authentication. hostapd supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend, hostapd_cli, is included with hostapd.
We can use yum or dnf to install hostapd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hostapd.
Install hostapd 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 hostapd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hostapd
Install hostapd 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 hostapd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hostapd
How To Uninstall hostapd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the hostapd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hostapd
hostapd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/hostapd
/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
/etc/sysconfig/hostapd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/aae2276fafc5b90e291a606633ea14ee6d663f
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/2a7f29f9772e6d701027e9b4a5dfba6ed15c6e
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hostapd.service
/usr/sbin/hostapd
/usr/sbin/hostapd_cli
/usr/share/doc/hostapd
/usr/share/doc/hostapd/README
/usr/share/doc/hostapd/README-WPS.hostapd
/usr/share/doc/hostapd/README.hostapd
/usr/share/doc/hostapd/hostapd.accept
/usr/share/doc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
/usr/share/doc/hostapd/hostapd.deny
/usr/share/doc/hostapd/hostapd.eap_user
/usr/share/doc/hostapd/hostapd.radius_clients
/usr/share/doc/hostapd/hostapd.vlan
/usr/share/doc/hostapd/hostapd.wpa_psk
/usr/share/doc/hostapd/wired.conf
/usr/share/licenses/hostapd
/usr/share/licenses/hostapd/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/hostapd_cli.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/hostapd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hostapd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.