How To Install libnbd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnbd
on Fedora 34.
What is libnbd
NBD — Network Block Device — is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. This is the NBD client library in userspace, a simple library for writing NBD clients. The key features are * Synchronous and asynchronous APIs, both for ease of use and for writing non-blocking, multithreaded clients. * High performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic library. * Well-documented, stable API. * Bindings in several programming languages. libnbd 1.8.2 1.fc34 x86_64 134 k libnbd-1.8.2-1.fc34.src.rpm updates NBD client library in userspace https LGPLv2+ NBD — Network Block Device — is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. This is the NBD client library in userspace, a simple library for writing NBD clients. The key features are * Synchronous and asynchronous APIs, both for ease of use and for writing non-blocking, multithreaded clients. * High performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic library. * Well-documented, stable API. * Bindings in several programming languages.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libnbd
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libnbd.
Install libnbd 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 libnbd
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libnbd
Install libnbd 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 libnbd
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libnbd
How To Uninstall libnbd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the libnbd
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libnbd
libnbd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/nbdcopy
/usr/bin/nbdinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/ad2a4a1cbc133e78a5c96916a58cb9a6d37084
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/b74abed0af54291d12ee1829ee2bd8689f2665
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/a096a85809eddba4eee8f2871afb0bf05c88f2
/usr/lib/libnbd.so.0
/usr/lib/libnbd.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libnbd
/usr/share/doc/libnbd/README
/usr/share/licenses/libnbd
/usr/share/licenses/libnbd/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/man/man1/nbdcopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nbdinfo.1.gz
/usr/bin/nbdcopy
/usr/bin/nbdinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/cea15101400155f5e41420b4c22156146ee1a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/5059c4d908d878288c5a8cf75d2aa73ebb6e38
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/54811aa6fe2e2884d6eea9a30f6b14dcc75edc
/usr/lib64/libnbd.so.0
/usr/lib64/libnbd.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libnbd
/usr/share/doc/libnbd/README
/usr/share/licenses/libnbd
/usr/share/licenses/libnbd/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/man/man1/nbdcopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nbdinfo.1.gz
/usr/bin/nbdcopy
/usr/bin/nbdinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/0489bbd5b9804c002e0c0ef22dd2d085c09376
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/d481eafca5bcb9ed0116d28f40a05e1e6b2b62
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/8d23940b40b93557549b4f05e0873771552197
/usr/lib/libnbd.so.0
/usr/lib/libnbd.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libnbd
/usr/share/doc/libnbd/README
/usr/share/licenses/libnbd
/usr/share/licenses/libnbd/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/man/man1/nbdcopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nbdinfo.1.gz
/usr/bin/nbdcopy
/usr/bin/nbdinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/ad878adee72e19a9a77c290c78ccc8c4bc1e56
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/ab3bcf5476929c821720081fec27923ff44146
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/3cce8ec892e29cace0eb36fac222b72ba461f1
/usr/lib64/libnbd.so.0
/usr/lib64/libnbd.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libnbd
/usr/share/doc/libnbd/README
/usr/share/licenses/libnbd
/usr/share/licenses/libnbd/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/man/man1/nbdcopy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nbdinfo.1.gz
References
- [libnbd website](https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnbd
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.