How To Install fuse-btfs on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-btfs in Fedora 36. fuse-btfs is FUSE filesystem Bittorrent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-btfs on Fedora 36.

What is `fuse-btfs`

With BTFS, you can mount any .torrent file or magnet link and then use it as any read-only directory in your file tree. The contents of the files will be downloaded on-demand as they are read by applications. Tools like ls, cat and cp works as expected. Applications like vlc and mplayer can also work without changes.

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

Install fuse-btfs 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 fuse-btfs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fuse-btfs

Install fuse-btfs 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 fuse-btfs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fuse-btfs

How To Uninstall fuse-btfs on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the fuse-btfs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fuse-btfs

fuse-btfs Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/btfs
/usr/bin/btfsstat
/usr/bin/btplay
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/0953389be46aff4b8e2439098da45a1badf38a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/17e0c784b98d8a326d96dfe34a0c1b771c7ba9
/usr/share/doc/fuse-btfs
/usr/share/doc/fuse-btfs/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fuse-btfs
/usr/share/licenses/fuse-btfs/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/btfs.1.gz

References

fuse-btfs website

Summary

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