How To Install accountsservice on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice in Fedora 36. accountsservice is D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice on Fedora 36.

What is `accountsservice`

The accountsservice project provides a set of D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information and an implementation of these interfaces, based on the useradd, usermod and userdel commands.

We can use yum or dnf to install accountsservice on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install accountsservice.

Install accountsservice on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install accountsservice using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install accountsservice

Install accountsservice on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install accountsservice using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install accountsservice

How To Uninstall accountsservice on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove accountsservice

accountsservice Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.Accounts.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/feade25dcdb71b7b5917dd8f960679bf142091
/usr/lib/systemd/system/accounts-daemon.service
/usr/libexec/accounts-daemon
/usr/share/accountsservice
/usr/share/accountsservice/interfaces
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Accounts.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service
/usr/share/doc/accountsservice
/usr/share/doc/accountsservice/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/accountsservice/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/accountsservice
/usr/share/licenses/accountsservice/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/accounts-service.mo
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy
/var/lib/AccountsService
/var/lib/AccountsService/icons
/var/lib/AccountsService/users

References

accountsservice website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).