How To Install lsof on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lsof on Fedora 34.
What is lsof
Lsof stands for LiSt Open Files, and it does just that about files that are open by the processes running on a UNIX system.
We can use yum or dnf to install lsof on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lsof.
Install lsof 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 lsof using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lsof
Install lsof 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 lsof using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lsof
How To Uninstall lsof on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the lsof package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lsof
lsof Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/lsof
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/c2cd075f08a7107581138c11549c4f8776e18d
/usr/share/doc/lsof
/usr/share/doc/lsof/00CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/lsof/00FAQ
/usr/share/doc/lsof/00LSOF-L
/usr/share/doc/lsof/00QUICKSTART
/usr/share/doc/lsof/00README
/usr/share/man/man1/lsof.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lsof on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.