How To Install setuptool on Fedora 34

setuptool is A text mode system configuration tool

Introduction

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

What is `setuptool`

Setuptool is a user-friendly text mode menu utility which allows you to access all of the text mode configuration programs included in the operating system distribution.

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

Install setuptool 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 setuptool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install setuptool

Install setuptool 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 setuptool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install setuptool

How To Uninstall setuptool on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove setuptool

setuptool Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/pam.d/setup
/etc/security/console.apps/setup
/etc/setuptool.d
/etc/setuptool.d/98netconfig
/etc/setuptool.d/98system-config-authentication
/etc/setuptool.d/98system-config-display
/etc/setuptool.d/98system-config-keyboard
/etc/setuptool.d/99Xconfigurator
/etc/setuptool.d/99authconfig
/etc/setuptool.d/99kbdconfig
/etc/setuptool.d/99mouseconfig
/etc/setuptool.d/99ntsysv
/etc/setuptool.d/99printconf-tui
/etc/setuptool.d/99sndconfig
/etc/setuptool.d/99system-config-firewall-tui
/etc/setuptool.d/99system-config-network-tui
/etc/setuptool.d/99timeconfig
/usr/bin/setup
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/b0ce641bdedbf05f936bd7331585da97a8a8a1
/usr/sbin/setup
/usr/share/doc/setuptool
/usr/share/doc/setuptool/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/setuptool/README
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/bal/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/lo/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/setup.1.gz
/usr/share/setuptool
/usr/share/setuptool/setuptool.d

References

setuptool website

Summary

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