How To Install edac-util on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install edac-util in Fedora 36. edac-util is Command-line tool to generate standard EDAC reports

Introduction

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

What is edac-util

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-util command-line tool.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install edac-util

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

sudo yum -y install edac-util

How To Uninstall edac-util on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove edac-util

edac-util Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/edac-util
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/e72f3275ae5c741938f753ed7e89da521ba6ef
/usr/share/man/man1/edac-util.1.gz

References

Summary

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