How To Install netconsd on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install netconsd in Fedora 36. netconsd is The Netconsole Daemon

Introduction

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

What is netconsd

This is a daemon for receiving and processing logs from the Linux Kernel, as emitted over a network by the kernel’s netconsole module. It supports both the old “legacy” text-only format, and the new extended format added in v4.4. The core of the daemon does nothing but process messages and drop them to make the daemon useful, the user must supply one or more “output modules”. These modules are shared object files which expose a small ABI that is called by netconsd with the content and metadata for netconsole messages it receives.

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

Install netconsd 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 netconsd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install netconsd

Install netconsd 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 netconsd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install netconsd

How To Uninstall netconsd on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove netconsd

netconsd Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/netconsblaster
/usr/bin/netconsd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/d13a7383ea1b738d64159a7ca120d2d24d4c94
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/b37bca760a9c52c25e872e5b79b03a617c606b
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/6814376814e5e6f12a8a120fb14fea16b80261
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/5cde687863171568bb9bf6818ebd0d3bda84f7
/usr/lib64/netconsd
/usr/lib64/netconsd/logger.so
/usr/lib64/netconsd/printer.so
/usr/share/doc/netconsd
/usr/share/doc/netconsd/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/netconsd
/usr/share/licenses/netconsd/LICENSE

References

Summary

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