How To Install usbutils on Fedora 34

usbutils is Linux USB utilities

Introduction

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

What is usbutils

This package contains utilities for inspecting devices connected to a USB bus.

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

Install usbutils 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 usbutils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install usbutils

Install usbutils 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 usbutils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install usbutils

How To Uninstall usbutils on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove usbutils

usbutils Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/lsusb
/usr/bin/lsusb.py
/usr/bin/usb-devices
/usr/bin/usbhid-dump
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/dfa5964c891cd6f1564cd75bfe4ecd635daa85
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/5200993bdaea005ac41fb6f03c5967203ea19b
/usr/share/doc/usbutils
/usr/share/doc/usbutils/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/usbutils
/usr/share/licenses/usbutils/GPL-2.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/usbutils/GPL-3.0.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/usb-devices.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/lsusb.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/usbhid-dump.8.gz

References

Summary

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