How To Install kup-server on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install kup-server in Fedora 36. kup-server is Kernel.org Uploader - server utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kup-server on Fedora 36.

What is kup-server

Kup is a secure upload tool used by kernel developers to upload cryptographically verified packages to kernel.org. This package includes the server-side kup-server utility.

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

Install kup-server 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 kup-server using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kup-server

Install kup-server 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 kup-server using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kup-server

How To Uninstall kup-server on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the kup-server package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kup-server

kup-server Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/kup
/etc/kup/kup-server.cfg
/usr/bin/kup-server
/usr/share/doc/kup-server
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/1
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/10
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/11
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/12
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/13
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/14
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/15
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/16
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/17
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/2
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/3
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/4
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/5
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/6
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/7
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/8
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/9
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/badpgp
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/badpgp/pubring.gpg
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/badpgp/secring.gpg
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/pgp
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/pgp/pubring.gpg
/usr/share/doc/kup-server/test/pgp/secring.gpg
/usr/share/man/man1/kup-server.1.gz
/var/lib/kup
/var/lib/kup/pgp
/var/lib/kup/pub
/var/lib/kup/tmp
/var/run/kup
/var/run/kup/lock

References

Summary

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