How To Install luksmeta on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install luksmeta on Fedora 34.
What is luksmeta
LUKSMeta is a command line utility for storing small portions of metadata in the LUKSv1 header for use before unlocking the volume.
We can use yum or dnf to install luksmeta on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install luksmeta.
Install luksmeta 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 luksmeta using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install luksmeta
Install luksmeta 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 luksmeta using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install luksmeta
How To Uninstall luksmeta on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the luksmeta package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove luksmeta
luksmeta Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/luksmeta
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/ce4cd335ee82ac5acacfbb89b63ea5fe6c6367
/usr/share/man/man8/luksmeta.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install luksmeta on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.