How To Install zincati on Fedora 34

zincati is Update agent for Fedora CoreOS

Introduction

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

What is zincati

Update agent for Fedora CoreOS.

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

Install zincati 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 zincati using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zincati

Install zincati 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 zincati using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zincati

How To Uninstall zincati on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove zincati

zincati Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/zincati
/etc/zincati/config.d
/run/zincati
/run/zincati/config.d
/run/zincati/private
/run/zincati/private/metrics.promsock
/run/zincati/public
/run/zincati/public/metrics.promsock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/90c8988b40606a8dc9b97298c60f46bf4a774d
/usr/lib/systemd/system/zincati.service
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/50-zincati.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/zincati.conf
/usr/lib/zincati
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/10-agent.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/10-auto-updates.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/10-identity.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/30-updates-strategy.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/50-fedora-coreos-cincinnati.toml
/usr/libexec/zincati
/usr/share/doc/zincati
/usr/share/doc/zincati/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/zincati
/usr/share/licenses/zincati/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/zincati/LICENSE
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.coreos.zincati.deadend.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/zincati.rules
/etc/zincati
/etc/zincati/config.d
/run/zincati
/run/zincati/config.d
/run/zincati/private
/run/zincati/private/metrics.promsock
/run/zincati/public
/run/zincati/public/metrics.promsock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/60b216abcb68997f288f699fa0a23574c9f161
/usr/lib/systemd/system/zincati.service
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/50-zincati.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/zincati.conf
/usr/lib/zincati
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/10-agent.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/10-auto-updates.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/10-identity.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/30-updates-strategy.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/50-fedora-coreos-cincinnati.toml
/usr/libexec/zincati
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.coreos.zincati.conf
/usr/share/doc/zincati
/usr/share/doc/zincati/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/zincati
/usr/share/licenses/zincati/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/zincati/LICENSE
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.coreos.zincati.deadend.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/zincati.rules

References

Summary

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