How To Install icfg on Fedora 34

icfg is Command line utility to edit network configuration (icfg-*) files

Introduction

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

What is icfg

This is a utility for manipulating SysV network interface configuration files (the files matching the glob /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/icfg-*). These are text based files, that are normally easily edited by hand, but in many environments hand editing is not desirable (for instance, during kickstart installations). Icfg creates a scriptable interface to allow an admin to provision a systems network interfaces during install, without having to fall back to using a series of sed and awk commands

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

Install icfg 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 icfg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install icfg

Install icfg 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 icfg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install icfg

How To Uninstall icfg on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove icfg

icfg Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/icfg
/usr/share/doc/icfg
/usr/share/doc/icfg/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/icfg.1.gz

References

Summary

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