How To Install procinfo on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install procinfo in Fedora 36. procinfo is A tool for gathering and displaying system information

Introduction

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

What is `procinfo`

The procinfo command gets system data from the /proc directory (the kernel filesystem), formats it and displays it on standard output. You can use procinfo to acquire information about your system from the kernel as it is running. Install procinfo if you’d like to use it to gather and display system data.

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

Install procinfo 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 procinfo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install procinfo

Install procinfo 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 procinfo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install procinfo

How To Uninstall procinfo on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove procinfo

procinfo Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/lsdev
/usr/bin/procinfo
/usr/bin/socklist
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/a5fcaba0824ea823779ff9acfdecfec18d839a
/usr/share/doc/procinfo
/usr/share/doc/procinfo/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/procinfo/README
/usr/share/man/man8/lsdev.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/procinfo.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/socklist.8.gz

References

procinfo website

Summary

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