How To Install afuse on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install afuse in Fedora 36. afuse is An automounter implemented with FUSE

Introduction

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

What is `afuse`

Afuse is an automounting file system implemented in user-space using FUSE. Afuse currently implements the most basic functionality that can be expected by an automounter; that is it manages a directory of virtual directories. If one of these virtual directories is accessed and is not already automounted, afuse will attempt to mount a filesystem onto that directory. If the mount succeeds the requested access proceeds as normal, otherwise it will fail with an error.

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

Install afuse 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 afuse using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install afuse

Install afuse 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 afuse using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install afuse

How To Uninstall afuse on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove afuse

afuse Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/afuse
/usr/bin/afuse-avahissh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/63370bd68b42ca4e2be3c3c075d9eb600f77e2
/usr/share/doc/afuse
/usr/share/doc/afuse/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/afuse/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/afuse/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/afuse/README

References

afuse website

Summary

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