How To Install ledmon on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ledmon in Fedora 36. ledmon is Enclosure LED Utilities

Introduction

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

What is `ledmon`

The ledmon and ledctl are user space applications design to control LED associated with each slot in an enclosure or a drive bay. There are two types of system (Activity LED, Locate LED, Fail LED). User must have root privileges to use this application.

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

Install ledmon 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 ledmon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ledmon

Install ledmon 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 ledmon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ledmon

How To Uninstall ledmon on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ledmon

ledmon Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/13c03e311cceab312426b49b535df948307277
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/059e9b3d49e5438a83ccc9c6345b76b4b145d6
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ledmon.service
/usr/sbin/ledctl
/usr/sbin/ledmon
/usr/share/doc/ledmon
/usr/share/doc/ledmon/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ledmon/README.md
/usr/share/man/man5/ledmon.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ledctl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ledmon.8.gz

References

ledmon website

Summary

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