How To Install etckeeper-dnf on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install etckeeper-dnf in Fedora 36. etckeeper-dnf is DNF plugin for etckeeper support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install etckeeper-dnf on Fedora 36.

What is `etckeeper-dnf`

This package provides a DNF plugin for etckeeper. If you want to use etckeeper with DNF, install this package.

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

Install etckeeper-dnf 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 etckeeper-dnf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install etckeeper-dnf

Install etckeeper-dnf 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 etckeeper-dnf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install etckeeper-dnf

How To Uninstall etckeeper-dnf on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the etckeeper-dnf package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove etckeeper-dnf

etckeeper-dnf Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/etckeeper.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/etckeeper.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnf-plugins/etckeeper.py

References

etckeeper-dnf website

Summary

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