How To Install procinfo on Fedora 34

procinfo is A tool for gathering and displaying system information

Introduction

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

What is `procinfo`

The procinfo command gets system data from the /proc directory (the kernel filesystem), formats it and displays it on standard output. You can use procinfo to acquire information about your system from the kernel as it is running. Install procinfo if you’d like to use it to gather and display system data.

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

Install procinfo 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 procinfo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install procinfo

Install procinfo 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 procinfo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install procinfo

How To Uninstall procinfo on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove procinfo

procinfo Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/lsdev
/usr/bin/procinfo
/usr/bin/socklist
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/3199dae9fd3eff0e7622d5f91189f4abf5cccb
/usr/share/doc/procinfo
/usr/share/doc/procinfo/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/procinfo/README
/usr/share/man/man8/lsdev.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/procinfo.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/socklist.8.gz

References

procinfo website

Summary

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