How To Install portreserve on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install portreserve on Fedora 34.
What is portreserve
The portreserve program aims to help services with well-known ports that lie in the portmap range. It prevents portmap from a real service’s port by occupying it itself, until the real service tells it to release the port (generally in the init script).
We can use yum or dnf to install portreserve on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install portreserve.
Install portreserve 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 portreserve using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install portreserve
Install portreserve 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 portreserve using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install portreserve
How To Uninstall portreserve on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the portreserve package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove portreserve
portreserve Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/portreserve
/sbin/portrelease
/sbin/portreserve
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/753ba76c3a99e1d7a0ff3539b631ae386b117c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/portreserve.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/portreserve.conf
/usr/share/doc/portreserve
/usr/share/doc/portreserve/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/portreserve/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/portreserve/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/portreserve/README
/usr/share/man/man1/portrelease.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/portreserve.1.gz
/var/run/portreserve
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install portreserve on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.