How To Install device-mapper-event on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-event in Fedora 36. device-mapper-event is Device-mapper event daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-event on Fedora 36.

What is `device-mapper-event`

This package contains the dmeventd daemon for monitoring the state of device-mapper devices.

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

Install device-mapper-event 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 device-mapper-event using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install device-mapper-event

Install device-mapper-event 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 device-mapper-event using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install device-mapper-event

How To Uninstall device-mapper-event on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the device-mapper-event package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove device-mapper-event

device-mapper-event Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/a2c20b92d5aabd1ecba8b68181e0c88c261ce1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dm-event.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dm-event.socket
/usr/sbin/dmeventd
/usr/share/man/man8/dmeventd.8.gz

References

device-mapper-event website

Summary

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