How To Install smaclient on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smaclient
on Fedora 34.
What is smaclient
smaclient is a tool which provides a line-mode interface to the z/VM System Management API (SMAPI) for most Unix-compatible systems such as Linux. Smaclient can exercise all the VM management interfaces to create, modify and destroy virtual machines without ever logging into z/VM.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install smaclient
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install smaclient.
Install smaclient 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 smaclient
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install smaclient
Install smaclient 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 smaclient
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install smaclient
How To Uninstall smaclient on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the smaclient
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove smaclient
smaclient Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/smaclient
/usr/bin/smiucv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/5999b098949da0592c5a7c114105aac998ddda
/usr/share/man/man1/smaclient.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/smiucv.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smaclient
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.