How To Install sbd on Fedora 34

sbd is Storage-based death

Introduction

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

What is sbd

This package contains the storage-based death functionality. Available rpmbuild rebuild options –with(out)

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

Install sbd 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 sbd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sbd

Install sbd 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 sbd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sbd

How To Uninstall sbd on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sbd

sbd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/sysconfig/sbd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/d1ab8ec25e8d7801397746eedc5bf1bad83c55
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sbd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sbd_remote.service
/usr/sbin/sbd
/usr/share/doc/sbd
/usr/share/doc/sbd/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/sbd.8.gz
/usr/share/pkgconfig/sbd.pc
/usr/share/sbd
/etc/sysconfig/sbd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/e7b3c61e21138f711e37c4e0a9a4300ce45c68
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sbd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sbd_remote.service
/usr/sbin/sbd
/usr/share/doc/sbd
/usr/share/doc/sbd/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/sbd.8.gz
/usr/share/pkgconfig/sbd.pc
/usr/share/sbd

References

Summary

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