How To Install pmempool on Fedora 34

pmempool is Utilities for Persistent Memory

Introduction

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

What is pmempool

The pmempool is a standalone utility for management and off-line analysis of Persistent Memory pools created by PMDK libraries. It provides a set of utilities for administration and diagnostics of Persistent Memory pools. The pmempool may be useful for troubleshooting by system administrators and users of the applications based on PMDK libraries.

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

Install pmempool 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 pmempool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pmempool

Install pmempool 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 pmempool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pmempool

How To Uninstall pmempool on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pmempool

pmempool Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/bash_completion.d/pmempool
/usr/bin/pmempool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/27e93f158862d6e5ef517cb2a5370085ae4669
/usr/share/doc/pmempool
/usr/share/doc/pmempool/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/pmempool/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pmempool/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/pmempool
/usr/share/licenses/pmempool/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-check.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-convert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-dump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-feature.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-rm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-sync.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool-transform.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pmempool.1.gz

References

Summary

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