How To Install butane-redistributable on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install butane-redistributable in Fedora 36. butane-redistributable is Statically built Butane for Linux, macOS and Windows

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install butane-redistributable on Fedora 36.

What is butane-redistributable

Butane translates human-readable Butane Configs into machine-readable Ignition configs for provisioning operating systems that use Ignition. This package contains statically linked Linux, macOS and Windows Butane binaries built through cross-compilation. Do not install it. It is only used for building release binaries to be signed by Fedora release engineering and uploaded to the Butane GitHub releases page.

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

Install butane-redistributable 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 butane-redistributable using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install butane-redistributable

Install butane-redistributable 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 butane-redistributable using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install butane-redistributable

How To Uninstall butane-redistributable on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the butane-redistributable package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove butane-redistributable

butane-redistributable Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/butane
/usr/share/butane/butane-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-static
/usr/share/butane/butane-ppc64le-unknown-linux-gnu-static
/usr/share/butane/butane-s390x-unknown-linux-gnu-static
/usr/share/butane/butane-x86_64-apple-darwin
/usr/share/butane/butane-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu.exe
/usr/share/butane/butane-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-static
/usr/share/licenses/butane-redistributable
/usr/share/licenses/butane-redistributable/LICENSE

References

Summary

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