How To Install rmd on Fedora 34

rmd is Resource Management Daemon-RMD

Introduction

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

What is rmd

RMD is a system daemon providing a central interface for hardware resource management tasks on x86 platforms.

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

Install rmd 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 rmd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rmd

Install rmd 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 rmd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rmd

How To Uninstall rmd on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rmd

rmd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/rmd/acl/roles
/etc/rmd/acl/roles/admin
/etc/rmd/acl/roles/admin/cert.pem
/etc/rmd/acl/roles/user
/etc/rmd/acl/roles/user/user-cert.pem
/etc/rmd/acl/url
/etc/rmd/acl/url/model.conf
/etc/rmd/acl/url/policy.csv
/etc/rmd/cert/client
/etc/rmd/cert/client/ca.pem
/etc/rmd/cert/client/cert.pem
/etc/rmd/cert/client/key.pem
/etc/rmd/cert/client/user-cert.pem
/etc/rmd/cert/client/user-key.pem
/etc/rmd/cert/server
/etc/rmd/cert/server/ca.pem
/etc/rmd/cert/server/rmd-cert.pem
/etc/rmd/cert/server/rmd-key.pem
/etc/rmd/cpu_map.toml
/etc/rmd/pam/rmd
/etc/rmd/pam/test/rmd
/etc/rmd/policy.toml
/etc/rmd/policy.yaml
/etc/rmd/rmd.toml
/usr/bin/gen_conf
/usr/bin/rmd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/6a8bed97bf0ef44ed31088a4909444bbfd2596
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/a8e35448672b24ecc56a0dd58e57987c93286d
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rmd.service
/usr/share/doc/rmd
/usr/share/doc/rmd/ConfigurationGuide.md
/usr/share/doc/rmd/Prerequisite.md
/usr/share/doc/rmd/README.md
/usr/share/doc/rmd/UserGuide.md
/usr/share/licenses/rmd
/usr/share/licenses/rmd/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/gen_conf.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rmd.8.gz
/usr/share/rmd
/usr/share/rmd/scripts
/usr/share/rmd/scripts/setup_rmd_users.sh

References

Summary

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