How To Install pmount on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pmount on Fedora 34.
What is pmount
pmount (“policy mount”) is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. Be warned that pmount is installed setuid root.
We can use yum or dnf to install pmount on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pmount.
Install pmount 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 pmount using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pmount
Install pmount 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 pmount using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pmount
How To Uninstall pmount on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pmount package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pmount
pmount Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/pmount.allow
/usr/bin/pmount
/usr/bin/pumount
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/e820603bfa6e24eebb7904c1601a3d982d7d62
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/09a29930bb035f28e68eb3b18c35fd45d86dad
/usr/share/doc/pmount
/usr/share/doc/pmount/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pmount/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pmount/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pmount/README.devel
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/yi/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pmount.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pmount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pumount.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pmount on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.