How To Install google-guest-agent on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install google-guest-agent
on Fedora 36.
What is google-guest-agent
This package contains scripts, configuration, and init files for features specific to the Google Compute Engine cloud environment.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install google-guest-agent
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install google-guest-agent.
Install google-guest-agent 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 google-guest-agent
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install google-guest-agent
Install google-guest-agent 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 google-guest-agent
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install google-guest-agent
How To Uninstall google-guest-agent on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the google-guest-agent
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove google-guest-agent
google-guest-agent Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/default/instance_configs.cfg
/usr/bin/google_guest_agent
/usr/bin/google_metadata_script_runner
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/19ec5632883ac79395ab85d62d9a6482f975fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/85502f90efaae07977ff506503c10ef104b489
/usr/lib/systemd/system/google-guest-agent.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/google-shutdown-scripts.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/google-startup-scripts.service
/usr/share/doc/google-guest-agent
/usr/share/doc/google-guest-agent/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/google-guest-agent/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/google-guest-agent
/usr/share/licenses/google-guest-agent/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install google-guest-agent
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).