How To Install fsverity-utils on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fsverity-utils in Fedora 36. fsverity-utils is fsverity utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fsverity-utils on Fedora 36.

What is `fsverity-utils`

This is fsverity, a userspace utility for fs-verity. fs-verity is a Linux kernel feature that does transparent on-demand integrity/authenticity verification of the contents of read-only files, using a hidden Merkle tree (hash tree) associated with the file. The mechanism is similar to dm-verity, but implemented at the file level rather than at the block device level. The fsverity utility allows you to set up fs-verity protected files.

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

Install fsverity-utils 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 fsverity-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fsverity-utils

Install fsverity-utils 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 fsverity-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fsverity-utils

How To Uninstall fsverity-utils on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the fsverity-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fsverity-utils

fsverity-utils Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/fsverity
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/c25dd3f29e2f48dcc531ba5b38353c1f8311bd
/usr/share/doc/fsverity-utils
/usr/share/doc/fsverity-utils/README.md

References

fsverity-utils website

Summary

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