How To Install mingetty on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingetty in Fedora 36. mingetty is A compact getty program for virtual consoles only

Introduction

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

What is mingetty

The mingetty program is a lightweight, minimalist getty program for use only on virtual consoles. Mingetty is not suitable for serial lines (you should use the mgetty program in that case).

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

Install mingetty 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 mingetty using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mingetty

Install mingetty 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 mingetty using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mingetty

How To Uninstall mingetty on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove mingetty

mingetty Package Contents on Fedora 36

/sbin/mingetty
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/50d6c8fe323bb17fe2e7c54364f275c65f6d18
/usr/share/licenses/mingetty
/usr/share/licenses/mingetty/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/mingetty.8.gz

References

Summary

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