How To Install kmodtool on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kmodtool on Fedora 34.
What is kmodtool
This package contains tools and list of recent kernels that get used when building kmod-packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install kmodtool on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kmodtool.
Install kmodtool 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 kmodtool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kmodtool
Install kmodtool 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 kmodtool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kmodtool
How To Uninstall kmodtool on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the kmodtool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kmodtool
kmodtool Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/kmodtool
/usr/share/kmodtool
/usr/share/kmodtool/kernel-variants
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kmodtool on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.