How To Install conman on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install conman in Fedora 36. conman is ConMan - The Console Manager

Introduction

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

What is conman

ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users. It currently supports local serial devices and remote terminal servers (via the telnet protocol). Its features include - mapping symbolic names to console devices - logging all output from a console device to file - supporting monitor (R/O), interactive (R/W), and broadcast (W/O) modes of console access - allowing clients to join or steal console “write” privileges - executing Expect scripts across multiple consoles in parallel

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

Install conman 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 conman using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install conman

Install conman 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 conman using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install conman

How To Uninstall conman on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove conman

conman Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/conman.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/conman
/usr/bin/conman
/usr/bin/conmen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/f0463befce346ca7cdd674f27eaca8b3b00580
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/f2c34eebe2c9fe1ed9b96ba5f2ee9d3e3bcdca
/usr/lib/systemd/system/conman.service
/usr/sbin/conmand
/usr/share/conman
/usr/share/conman/alpha.exp
/usr/share/conman/conman.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec
/usr/share/conman/exec/README
/usr/share/conman/exec/cyclades-ssh.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/cyclades-telnet.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/hp-ilo.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/hp-lo100.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ibm-bc.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ipmiconsole.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ipmitool.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ssh.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/sun-elom.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/sun-ilom.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/sun-v20z-v40z.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman
/usr/share/doc/conman/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/conman/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/conman/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/README
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/boot_alpha.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/mac.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/rmc.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/shell_cmd_1.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/shell_cmd_n.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/srm.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/wtf.exp
/usr/share/licenses/conman
/usr/share/licenses/conman/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/conman.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/conman.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/conmand.8.gz
/var/log/conman
/var/log/conman.old

References

Summary

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