How To Install hostname on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hostname
on Fedora 36.
What is hostname
This package provides commands which can be used to display the system’s DNS name, and to display or set its hostname or NIS domain name.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install hostname
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hostname.
Install hostname 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 hostname
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hostname
Install hostname 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 hostname
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hostname
How To Uninstall hostname on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the hostname
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hostname
hostname Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/dnsdomainname
/usr/bin/domainname
/usr/bin/hostname
/usr/bin/nisdomainname
/usr/bin/ypdomainname
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/ba1839ce72ad0bcc7859552febfe329cd48441
/usr/lib/systemd/system/nis-domainname.service
/usr/libexec/hostname
/usr/libexec/hostname/nis-domainname
/usr/share/doc/hostname
/usr/share/doc/hostname/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/hostname
/usr/share/licenses/hostname/gpl-2.0.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/dnsdomainname.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/domainname.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/hostname.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nisdomainname.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ypdomainname.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hostname
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).