How To Install cloud-utils on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-utils in Fedora 36. cloud-utils is Cloud image management utilities

Introduction

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

What is cloud-utils

This package provides a useful set of utilities for managing cloud images. The tasks associated with image bundling are often tedious and repetitive. The cloud-utils package provides several scripts that wrap the complicated tasks with a much simpler interface.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install cloud-utils

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

sudo yum -y install cloud-utils

How To Uninstall cloud-utils on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove cloud-utils

cloud-utils Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/cloud-localds
/usr/bin/ec2metadata
/usr/bin/mount-image-callback
/usr/bin/resize-part-image
/usr/bin/vcs-run
/usr/bin/write-mime-multipart
/usr/share/doc/cloud-utils
/usr/share/doc/cloud-utils/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/cloud-utils
/usr/share/licenses/cloud-utils/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/cloud-localds.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/resize-part-image.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/write-mime-multipart.1.gz

References

Summary

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