How To Install mingetty on Fedora 34

mingetty is A compact getty program for virtual consoles only

Introduction

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

What is `mingetty`

The mingetty program is a lightweight, minimalist getty program for use only on virtual consoles. Mingetty is not suitable for serial lines (you should use the mgetty program in that case).

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

Install mingetty 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 mingetty using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mingetty

Install mingetty 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 mingetty using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mingetty

How To Uninstall mingetty on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove mingetty

mingetty Package Contents on Fedora 34

/sbin/mingetty
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/9403ddd527909594f49880339633d67dc3a815
/usr/share/licenses/mingetty
/usr/share/licenses/mingetty/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/mingetty.8.gz

References

mingetty website

Summary

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