How To Install toolbox on Fedora 34

toolbox is Tool for containerized command line environments on Linux

Introduction

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

What is toolbox

Toolbox is a tool for Linux operating systems, which allows the use of containerized command line environments. It is built on top of Podman and other standard container technologies from OCI.

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

Install toolbox 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 toolbox using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install toolbox

Install toolbox 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 toolbox using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install toolbox

How To Uninstall toolbox on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove toolbox

toolbox Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/profile.d/toolbox.sh
/usr/bin/toolbox
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/1d21034fa676ca1fee079d8218424b21d39687
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/toolbox.conf
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/toolbox
/usr/share/doc/toolbox
/usr/share/doc/toolbox/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md
/usr/share/doc/toolbox/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/toolbox/README.md
/usr/share/doc/toolbox/SECURITY.md
/usr/share/licenses/toolbox
/usr/share/licenses/toolbox/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-enter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-help.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-init-container.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-rm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-rmi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-run.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox.1.gz
/etc/profile.d/toolbox.sh
/usr/bin/toolbox
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/06e6e328b8ae7640b80a674713877e7cea2af5
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/toolbox.conf
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/toolbox
/usr/share/doc/toolbox
/usr/share/doc/toolbox/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md
/usr/share/doc/toolbox/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/toolbox/README.md
/usr/share/doc/toolbox/SECURITY.md
/usr/share/licenses/toolbox
/usr/share/licenses/toolbox/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-create.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-enter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-help.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-init-container.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-rm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-rmi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox-run.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toolbox.1.gz

References

Summary

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