How To Install acl on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install acl in Fedora 36. acl is Access control list utilities

Introduction

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

What is acl

This package contains the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists.

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

Install acl 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 acl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install acl

Install acl 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 acl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install acl

How To Uninstall acl on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove acl

acl Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/chacl
/usr/bin/getfacl
/usr/bin/setfacl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/758c3e60413d6386aebde5eb919363e0502e5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/0c472123397a2044ee3b6eadc3a8223f8340f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/0326dd4b2788f3d415d4c79aa7bf72710023b5
/usr/share/licenses/acl
/usr/share/licenses/acl/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/acl/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/acl.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/chacl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/getfacl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/setfacl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/acl.5.gz

References

Summary

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