How To Install heimdall on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install heimdall in Fedora 36. heimdall is Flash firmware on to Samsung Galaxy S devices

Introduction

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

What is `heimdall`

Heimdall is a cross-platform open-source utility to flash firmware on to Samsung Galaxy S devices

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

Install heimdall 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 heimdall using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install heimdall

Install heimdall 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 heimdall using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install heimdall

How To Uninstall heimdall on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove heimdall

heimdall Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/heimdall
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/bfe2b86ff8cdcab5e264d5e056cb1f170622c8
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-heimdall.rules
/usr/share/doc/heimdall
/usr/share/doc/heimdall/README
/usr/share/licenses/heimdall
/usr/share/licenses/heimdall/LICENSE

References

heimdall website

Summary

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