How To Install edac-ctl on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install edac-ctl in Fedora 36. edac-ctl is Script to load EDAC driver and register DIMM labels

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install edac-ctl on Fedora 36.

What is `edac-ctl`

EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) is a set of Linux kernel modules that handle reporting of hardware-related errors. Currently these modules mainly handle detection of ECC memory errors for many x86 and x86-64 chipsets and PCI bus parity errors. The edac-utils project currently has three components edac-ctl. The libedac library presents a standard API for reading EDAC error counts and other information from sysfs, and edac-util uses this API to generate standard reports from the commandline. The edac-ctl utility is a perl script which uses config files to load the appropriate EDAC driver for a given chipset and register motherboard DIMM labels if they are configured. An init script is also provided which uses edac-ctl to initialize EDAC at system startup. This package provides the edac-ctl script and the edac service.

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

Install edac-ctl 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 edac-ctl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install edac-ctl

Install edac-ctl 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 edac-ctl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install edac-ctl

How To Uninstall edac-ctl on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the edac-ctl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove edac-ctl

edac-ctl Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/edac
/etc/edac/labels.d
/etc/edac/labels.db
/etc/edac/mainboard
/usr/lib/systemd/system/edac.service
/usr/sbin/edac-ctl
/usr/share/doc/edac-ctl
/usr/share/doc/edac-ctl/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/edac-ctl/README
/usr/share/licenses/edac-ctl
/usr/share/licenses/edac-ctl/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/edac-ctl/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/edac-ctl/DISCLAIMER
/usr/share/man/man8/edac-ctl.8.gz

References

edac-ctl website

Summary

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