How To Install daxctl on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install daxctl in Fedora 36. daxctl is Manage Device-DAX instances

Introduction

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

What is daxctl

The daxctl utility provides enumeration and provisioning commands for the Linux kernel Device-DAX facility. This facility enables DAX mappings of performance / feature differentiated memory without need of a filesystem.

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

Install daxctl 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 daxctl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install daxctl

Install daxctl 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 daxctl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install daxctl

How To Uninstall daxctl on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove daxctl

daxctl Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/daxctl.conf.d/daxctl.example.conf
/usr/bin/daxctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/ff445abb0b3b72fe49d5c9c4cfc006d0d01cd8
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-daxctl-device.rules
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/daxctl
/usr/share/daxctl/daxctl.conf
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl/CC0-1.0
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl/GPL-2.0
/usr/share/licenses/daxctl/MIT
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-create-device.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-destroy-device.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-disable-device.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-enable-device.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-list.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-migrate-device-model.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-offline-memory.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-online-memory.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl-reconfigure-device.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/daxctl.1.gz

References

Summary

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