How To Install koan on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install koan on Fedora 34.
What is koan
Koan stands for kickstart-over-a-network and allows for both network installation of new virtualized guests and reinstallation of an existing system. For use with a boot-server configured with Cobbler.
We can use yum or dnf to install koan on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install koan.
Install koan 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 koan using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install koan
Install koan 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 koan using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install koan
How To Uninstall koan on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the koan package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove koan
koan Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cobbler-register
/usr/bin/koan
/usr/share/doc/koan
/usr/share/doc/koan/README
/usr/share/licenses/koan
/usr/share/licenses/koan/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install koan on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.