How To Install oddjob on Fedora 34

oddjob is A D-Bus service which runs odd jobs on behalf of client applications

Introduction

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

What is oddjob

oddjob is a D-Bus service which performs particular tasks for clients which connect to it and issue requests using the system-wide message bus.

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

Install oddjob 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 oddjob using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install oddjob

Install oddjob 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 oddjob using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install oddjob

How To Uninstall oddjob on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove oddjob

oddjob Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/oddjob.conf
/etc/oddjob
/etc/oddjobd.conf
/etc/oddjobd.conf.d
/etc/oddjobd.conf.d/oddjobd-introspection.conf
/usr/bin/oddjob_request
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/ea8de613ea432802d812520c85a5c2f9983eca
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/f8ca717a51a2e5182841b35131eb5f5ac0b328
/usr/lib/systemd/system/oddjobd.service
/usr/libexec/oddjob
/usr/libexec/oddjob/sanity.sh
/usr/sbin/oddjobd
/usr/share/doc/oddjob
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/QUICKSTART
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/oddjob.html
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/oddjobconfig.dtd
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/reload
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc/dbus-1
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc/dbus-1/system.d
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc/dbus-1/system.d/oddjob-sample.conf
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc/oddjobd.conf.d
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/etc/oddjobd.conf.d/oddjobd-sample.conf
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/usr
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/usr/lib64
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/usr/lib64/oddjob
/usr/share/doc/oddjob/sample/usr/lib64/oddjob/oddjob-sample.sh
/usr/share/man/man1/oddjob_request.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/oddjob.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/oddjobd-introspection.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/oddjobd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oddjobd.8.gz

References

Summary

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