How To Install nvmetcli on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvmetcli on Fedora 34.
What is nvmetcli
This package contains the command line interface to the NVMe over Fabrics nvmet in the Linux kernel. It allows configuring the nvmet interactively as well as saving / restoring the configuration to / from a json file.
We can use yum or dnf to install nvmetcli on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nvmetcli.
Install nvmetcli 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 nvmetcli using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nvmetcli
Install nvmetcli 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 nvmetcli using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nvmetcli
How To Uninstall nvmetcli on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the nvmetcli package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nvmetcli
nvmetcli Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/nvmet
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmet
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmet/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmet/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmet/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmet/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmet/__pycache__/nvme.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmet/__pycache__/nvme.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmet/__pycache__/test_nvmet.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmet/__pycache__/test_nvmet.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmet/nvme.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmet/test_nvmet.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmetcli-0.7-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmetcli-0.7-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmetcli-0.7-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmetcli-0.7-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nvmetcli-0.7-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvmet.service
/usr/sbin/nvmetcli
/usr/share/doc/nvmetcli
/usr/share/doc/nvmetcli/README
/usr/share/licenses/nvmetcli
/usr/share/licenses/nvmetcli/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/nvmetcli.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nvmetcli on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.