How To Install am-utils on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install am-utils in Fedora 36. am-utils is Automount utilities including an updated version of Amd

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install am-utils on Fedora 36.

What is am-utils

Am-utils includes an updated version of Amd, the popular BSD automounter. An automounter is a program which maintains a cache of mounted filesystems. Filesystems are mounted when they are first referenced by the user and unmounted after a certain period of inactivity. Amd supports a variety of filesystems, including NFS, UFS, CD-ROMS and local drives. You should install am-utils if you need a program for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems.

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

Install am-utils 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 am-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install am-utils

Install am-utils 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 am-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install am-utils

How To Uninstall am-utils on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the am-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove am-utils

am-utils Package Contents on Fedora 36

/.automount
/etc/amd.conf
/etc/amd.net
/etc/sysconfig/amd
/usr/bin/pawd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/00fc055359678b5156c6230b0cc9ffb2e9af1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/c9ae773964705d6fe3b8724e2653b841297fdd
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/6fb5ecb93be81a761ed8c5e1bf64c9826dfa0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/306f4505f2dd63261400b5a14da69e8c228bf2
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/6fa2e059dda2fcda7ea87bb925e28bfbdef532
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/d2cf4a6123f08a9a5b338d00eec2c39dc47d03
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/c97a1d0479a2a1ecff289d432405c8d0ce3ee2
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/72db1ca1ab2cb896ef3732cbd409c9e9f94c97
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/68c8344d069ab8f48fa03055d6e7d85e39aa2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/c2b2e432ae9563dff0d8d4625258c01ad7922e
/usr/lib/libamu.so.4
/usr/lib/libamu.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib/systemd/system/amd.service
/usr/sbin/am-eject
/usr/sbin/amd
/usr/sbin/amd2ldif
/usr/sbin/amd2sun
/usr/sbin/amq
/usr/sbin/automount2amd
/usr/sbin/ctl-hlfsd
/usr/sbin/fix-amd-map
/usr/sbin/fixmount
/usr/sbin/fixrmtab
/usr/sbin/fsinfo
/usr/sbin/hlfsd
/usr/sbin/lostaltmail
/usr/sbin/mk-amd-map
/usr/sbin/sun2amd
/usr/sbin/wait4amd
/usr/sbin/wait4amd2die
/usr/sbin/wire-test
/usr/share/doc/am-utils
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.attrcache
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.autofs
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.ldap
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.osx
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.sun2amd
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.y2k
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/am-utils.ps
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/amd.conf-sample
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/hlfsd.ps
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/lostaltmail.conf-sample
/usr/share/info/am-utils.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/am-utils.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/am-utils.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pawd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/amd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amq.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/automount2amd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fixmount.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fsinfo.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/hlfsd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mk-amd-map.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sun2amd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/wire-test.8.gz

References

Summary

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

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install am-utils on Fedora 36.

What is am-utils

Am-utils includes an updated version of Amd, the popular BSD automounter. An automounter is a program which maintains a cache of mounted filesystems. Filesystems are mounted when they are first referenced by the user and unmounted after a certain period of inactivity. Amd supports a variety of filesystems, including NFS, UFS, CD-ROMS and local drives. You should install am-utils if you need a program for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems.

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

Install am-utils 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 am-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install am-utils

Install am-utils 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 am-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install am-utils

How To Uninstall am-utils on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the am-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove am-utils

am-utils Package Contents on Fedora 36

/.automount
/etc/amd.conf
/etc/amd.net
/etc/sysconfig/amd
/usr/bin/pawd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/4a61f5da3f93718d65370c9c5828db09e56b61
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/ddbc67dce932fea9e195b498bf55afc9ce1736
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/36decd88a798b69c60ff065c3c33d8d28578cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/7aeb380516ce38872b4845a5b770e00527c477
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/34ed85eec644225f1d17ceab46889cedcc190b
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/cdef8583bcf37862a1733661e9dc11a4bf1c26
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/3bac0cbe3c111905c168986d0e9f0f174921df
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/e35b6607dae53435b51ae53a1809b40826a6ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/96ab16a1f074d0d6220efa826e2b66fee1a98a
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/42fab7bb09bca7e60336d3de45fec1d38a8649
/usr/lib/systemd/system/amd.service
/usr/lib64/libamu.so.4
/usr/lib64/libamu.so.4.0.0
/usr/sbin/am-eject
/usr/sbin/amd
/usr/sbin/amd2ldif
/usr/sbin/amd2sun
/usr/sbin/amq
/usr/sbin/automount2amd
/usr/sbin/ctl-hlfsd
/usr/sbin/fix-amd-map
/usr/sbin/fixmount
/usr/sbin/fixrmtab
/usr/sbin/fsinfo
/usr/sbin/hlfsd
/usr/sbin/lostaltmail
/usr/sbin/mk-amd-map
/usr/sbin/sun2amd
/usr/sbin/wait4amd
/usr/sbin/wait4amd2die
/usr/sbin/wire-test
/usr/share/doc/am-utils
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.attrcache
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.autofs
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.ldap
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.osx
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.sun2amd
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/README.y2k
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/am-utils.ps
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/amd.conf-sample
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/hlfsd.ps
/usr/share/doc/am-utils/lostaltmail.conf-sample
/usr/share/info/am-utils.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/am-utils.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/am-utils.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pawd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/amd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/amq.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/automount2amd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fixmount.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fsinfo.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/hlfsd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mk-amd-map.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sun2amd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/wire-test.8.gz

References

Summary

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