How To Install nfacct on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install nfacct in Fedora 36. nfacct is Command line tool to create/retrieve/delete accounting objects

Introduction

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

What is `nfacct`

Nfacct is the command line tool to create/retrieve/delete accounting objects.

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

Install nfacct 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 nfacct using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nfacct

Install nfacct 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 nfacct using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nfacct

How To Uninstall nfacct on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove nfacct

nfacct Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/f6874520298317e2c0134427d6dab5d8f55d4f
/usr/sbin/nfacct
/usr/share/doc/nfacct
/usr/share/doc/nfacct/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/nfacct.8.gz

References

nfacct website

Summary

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