How To Install memavaild on Fedora 34

memavaild is Improve responsiveness during heavy swapping

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install memavaild on Fedora 34.

What is memavaild

Improve responsiveness during heavy swapping

We can use yum or dnf to install memavaild on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install memavaild.

Install memavaild 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 memavaild using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install memavaild

Install memavaild 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 memavaild using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install memavaild

How To Uninstall memavaild on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the memavaild package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove memavaild

memavaild Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/memavaild.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/memavaild.service
/usr/sbin/memavaild
/usr/share/doc/memavaild
/usr/share/doc/memavaild/MANPAGE.md
/usr/share/doc/memavaild/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/memavaild
/usr/share/licenses/memavaild/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/memavaild.8.gz
/usr/share/memavaild
/usr/share/memavaild/memavaild.conf

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install memavaild on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.