How To Install vultr on Fedora 34

vultr is Vultr CLI

Introduction

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

What is vultr

Vultr CLI is a command line tool for using the Vultr API. It allows you to create and manage your virtual machines, SSH public keys, snapshots, and startup scripts on your Vultr account. You can also use it to directly SSH into a Vultr virtual machine through the vultr ssh command.

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

Install vultr 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 vultr using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vultr

Install vultr 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 vultr using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vultr

How To Uninstall vultr on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vultr

vultr Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/vultr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/c11a6216f107d1dbab1154ce7c1bd365ca527f
/usr/share/doc/vultr
/usr/share/doc/vultr/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/vultr
/usr/share/licenses/vultr/LICENSE

References

Summary

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