How To Install rmt on Fedora 34

rmt is Provides certain programs with access to remote tape devices

Introduction

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

What is rmt

The rmt utility provides remote access to tape devices for programs like dump (a filesystem backup program), restore (a program for restoring files from a backup), and tar (an archiving program).

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

Install rmt 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 rmt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rmt

Install rmt 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 rmt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rmt

How To Uninstall rmt on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rmt

rmt Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/default/rmt
/etc/rmt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/de834cbb74b872277639a9901461b8944b7739
/usr/sbin/rmt
/usr/share/doc/star
/usr/share/doc/star/CDDL.Schily.txt
/usr/share/doc/star/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/rmt.1.gz

References

Summary

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