How To Install kea-hooks on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install kea-hooks in Fedora 36. kea-hooks is Hooks libraries for kea

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kea-hooks on Fedora 36.

What is `kea-hooks`

Hooking mechanism allow Kea to load one or more dynamically-linked libraries (known as “hooks libraries”) and, at various points in its processing (“hook points”), call functions in them. Those functions perform whatever custom processing is required.

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

Install kea-hooks 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 kea-hooks using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kea-hooks

Install kea-hooks 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 kea-hooks using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kea-hooks

How To Uninstall kea-hooks on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the kea-hooks package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kea-hooks

kea-hooks Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/a4b6d94bf43d129d1bb9f0a2def17e597c0ed0
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/ff2f8e90cd592b3489bad487be531a1c9fb83b
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/6fcbe92e61564b6554cfb67ab2bd4d067812b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/8ff5a6e99da965b403c095d0ffa13702478a78
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/c718beb1b53899b144539b635bbc7bca065a47
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/baf53e39d131f99fba1dcc828168b0a578a72a
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/631309b332782a865bbbd21a32000a3304391a
/usr/lib64/kea
/usr/lib64/kea/hooks
/usr/lib64/kea/hooks/libdhcp_bootp.so
/usr/lib64/kea/hooks/libdhcp_flex_option.so
/usr/lib64/kea/hooks/libdhcp_ha.so
/usr/lib64/kea/hooks/libdhcp_lease_cmds.so
/usr/lib64/kea/hooks/libdhcp_mysql_cb.so
/usr/lib64/kea/hooks/libdhcp_run_script.so
/usr/lib64/kea/hooks/libdhcp_stat_cmds.so

References

kea-hooks website

Summary

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