How To Install openrdate on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install openrdate in Fedora 36. openrdate is Good-old rdate date and time-setting software

Introduction

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

What is `openrdate`

Good-old date- and time-setting rdate software implementing RFC 868 (inetd time) and RFC 2030 (SNTP/NTP) protocols. An independent package of OpenBSD’s rdate program.

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

Install openrdate 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 openrdate using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openrdate

Install openrdate 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 openrdate using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openrdate

How To Uninstall openrdate on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove openrdate

openrdate Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/rdate
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/8f8187112e03b8720dd23a5a27841c7a63c3cf
/usr/share/doc/openrdate
/usr/share/doc/openrdate/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/openrdate/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/openrdate/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/openrdate/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/openrdate/README
/usr/share/man/man8/rdate.8.gz

References

openrdate website

Summary

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