How To Install needrestart on Fedora 34
needrestart is Restart daemons after library updates
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart on Fedora 34.
What is needrestart
needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package.
We can use yum or dnf to install needrestart on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install needrestart.
Install needrestart 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 needrestart using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install needrestart
Install needrestart 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 needrestart using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install needrestart
How To Uninstall needrestart on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the needrestart package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove needrestart
needrestart Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/default/intel-microcode
/etc/dnf/plugins/needrestart.conf
/etc/needrestart
/etc/needrestart/conf.d
/etc/needrestart/conf.d/README.needrestart
/etc/needrestart/hook.d
/etc/needrestart/hook.d/10-dpkg
/etc/needrestart/hook.d/30-pacman
/etc/needrestart/hook.d/90-none
/etc/needrestart/iucode.sh
/etc/needrestart/needrestart.conf
/etc/needrestart/notify.conf
/etc/needrestart/notify.d
/etc/needrestart/notify.d/200-write
/etc/needrestart/notify.d/400-notify-send
/etc/needrestart/notify.d/600-mail
/etc/needrestart/notify.d/README.needrestart
/etc/needrestart/restart.d
/etc/needrestart/restart.d/README.needrestart
/etc/needrestart/restart.d/auditd.service
/etc/needrestart/restart.d/dbus.service
/etc/needrestart/restart.d/systemd-manager
/etc/needrestart/restart.d/sysv-init
/usr/lib/needrestart
/usr/lib/needrestart/iucode-scan-versions
/usr/lib/needrestart/notify.d.sh
/usr/lib/needrestart/vmlinuz-get-version
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf-plugins
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/needrestart.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/needrestart.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dnf-plugins/needrestart.py
/usr/sbin/needrestart
/usr/share/doc/needrestart
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.Cont.md
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.Interp.md
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.batch.md
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.md
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.nagios.md
/usr/share/doc/needrestart/README.uCode.md
/usr/share/licenses/needrestart
/usr/share/licenses/needrestart/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart-notify.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart-notify.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart-notify.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/needrestart.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/needrestart.1.gz
/usr/share/needrestart
/usr/share/needrestart/needrestart.templates
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/CONT
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/CONT.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/CONT/LXC.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/CONT/docker.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/CONT/machined.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp/Java.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp/Perl.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp/Python.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Interp/Ruby.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Kernel
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Kernel.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Kernel/Linux.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Kernel/kFreeBSD.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Strings.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/UI
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/UI.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/UI/Debconf.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/UI/stdio.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/Utils.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/uCode
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/uCode.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/uCode/AMD.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/NeedRestart/uCode/Intel.pm
/usr/share/polkit-1
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/net.fiasko-nw.needrestart.policy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install needrestart on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.