How To Install sid on Fedora 34

sid is Storage Instantiation Daemon (SID)

Introduction

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

What is `sid`

Storage Instantiation Daemon (SID) aims to help with Linux storage device state tracking that encompasses device layers, groups and whole stacks by monitoring progression of events. Based on monitored states and further recorded information, it is able to trigger associated actions for well-defined triggers, including activation and deactivation of devices and their layers in the stack.

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

Install sid 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 sid using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sid

Install sid 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 sid using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sid

How To Uninstall sid on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sid

sid Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/sysconfig/sid.sysconfig
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/abfff0ae74fd0061b87579b9f4612842597aac
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sid.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sid.socket
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/00-sid.rules
/usr/sbin/sid
/usr/share/doc/sid
/usr/share/doc/sid/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/sid
/usr/share/licenses/sid/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/sid.8.gz

References

sid website

Summary

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