How To Install pcicrawler on Fedora 34

pcicrawler is Display/filter/export information about PCI or PCI Express devices

Introduction

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

What is pcicrawler

pcicrawler is a CLI tool to display/filter/export information about PCI or PCI Express devices and their topology.

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

Install pcicrawler 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 pcicrawler using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pcicrawler

Install pcicrawler 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 pcicrawler using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pcicrawler

How To Uninstall pcicrawler on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pcicrawler

pcicrawler Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pcicrawler
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_lib
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_lib/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_lib/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_lib/__pycache__/pci_lib.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_lib/__pycache__/pci_lib.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_lib/pci_lib.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_vpd_lib
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_vpd_lib/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_vpd_lib/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_vpd_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_vpd_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_vpd_lib/__pycache__/pci_vpd_lib.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_vpd_lib/__pycache__/pci_vpd_lib.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pci_vpd_lib/pci_vpd_lib.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler-1.0.0-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler-1.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler-1.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler-1.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler-1.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler-1.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler-1.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler/__pycache__/__version__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler/__pycache__/__version__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler/__version__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pcicrawler/cli.py
/usr/share/doc/pcicrawler
/usr/share/doc/pcicrawler/README.md

References

Summary

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