How To Install fctxpd on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fctxpd in Fedora 36. fctxpd is Fibrechannel transport daemon

Introduction

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

What is fctxpd

The purpose of this daemon is to add FC network intelligence in host and host intelligence in FC network. This daemon would inter-operate with Brocade FC fabric in order to improve the response time of the MPIO failover. In future, it can also collect the congestion related details and perform workload analysis, and provide QOS at application level by inter-operating with application performance profiling software.

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

Install fctxpd 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 fctxpd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fctxpd

Install fctxpd 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 fctxpd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fctxpd

How To Uninstall fctxpd on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove fctxpd

fctxpd Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/ee8675b63429fb678a969a98cbec487b88b74a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/fctxpd.service
/usr/sbin/fctxpd
/usr/share/doc/fctxpd
/usr/share/doc/fctxpd/README
/usr/share/licenses/fctxpd
/usr/share/licenses/fctxpd/GPL-2.0

References

Summary

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