How To Install nmstate on Fedora 34
nmstate is Declarative network manager API
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nmstate on Fedora 34.
What is nmstate
Nmstate is a library with an accompanying command line tool that manages host networking settings in a declarative manner and aimed to satisfy enterprise needs to manage host networking through a northbound declarative API and multi provider support on the southbound.
We can use yum or dnf to install nmstate on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nmstate.
Install nmstate 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 nmstate using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nmstate
Install nmstate 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 nmstate using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nmstate
How To Uninstall nmstate on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the nmstate package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nmstate
nmstate Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/nmstate-autoconf
/usr/bin/nmstatectl
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/nmstate_autoconf.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/nmstate_autoconf.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/nmstate_varlink.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/nmstate_varlink.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/nmstatectl.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/nmstatectl.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/io.nmstate.varlink
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/nmstate-varlink.service
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/nmstate_autoconf.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/nmstate_varlink.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/nmstatectl.py
/usr/lib/systemd/system/nmstate-varlink.service
/usr/share/doc/nmstate
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/README.md
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/bond_linuxbridge_vlan_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/bond_linuxbridge_vlan_up.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/dns_edit_eth1.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/dns_remove.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/eth1_add_route.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/eth1_del_all_routes.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/eth1_with_ieee_802_1x.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/eth1_with_sriov.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/infiniband_pkey_ipoib_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/infiniband_pkey_ipoib_delete.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/linuxbrige_eth1_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/linuxbrige_eth1_up.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/linuxbrige_eth1_up_port_vlan.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/mac_vlan_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/mac_vlan_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/mac_vtap_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/mac_vtap_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_bond_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_delete.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_patch_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_patch_delete.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_vlan_port.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/team0_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/team0_with_port.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/veth1_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/veth1_up.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/vlan101_eth1_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/vlan101_eth1_down.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/vlan101_eth1_up.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/vrf0_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/vrf0_with_eth1.yml
/usr/share/man/man8/nmstate-autoconf.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/nmstatectl.8.gz
/usr/bin/nmstatectl
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/nmstate_varlink.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/nmstate_varlink.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/nmstatectl.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/__pycache__/nmstatectl.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/io.nmstate.varlink
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/nmstate-varlink.service
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/nmstate_varlink.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nmstatectl/nmstatectl.py
/usr/share/doc/nmstate
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/README.md
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/bond_linuxbridge_vlan_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/bond_linuxbridge_vlan_up.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/dns_edit_eth1.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/dns_remove.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/eth1_add_route.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/eth1_del_all_routes.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/eth1_with_ieee_802_1x.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/eth1_with_sriov.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/infiniband_pkey_ipoib_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/infiniband_pkey_ipoib_delete.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/linuxbrige_eth1_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/linuxbrige_eth1_up.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/linuxbrige_eth1_up_port_vlan.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/mac_vlan_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/mac_vlan_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/mac_vtap_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/mac_vtap_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_bond_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_delete.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_patch_create.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_patch_delete.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/ovsbridge_vlan_port.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/team0_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/team0_with_port.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/veth1_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/veth1_up.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/vlan101_eth1_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/vlan101_eth1_down.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/vlan101_eth1_up.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/vrf0_absent.yml
/usr/share/doc/nmstate/examples/vrf0_with_eth1.yml
/usr/share/man/man8/nmstatectl.8.gz
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nmstate on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.