How To Install quotatool on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install quotatool in Fedora 36. quotatool is Command-line utility for filesystem quotas

Introduction

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

What is `quotatool`

Quotatool is a utility to manipulate filesystem quotas from the commandline. Most quota-utilities are interactive, requiring manual intervention from the user. Quotatool on the other hand is not, making it suitable for use in scripts and other non-interactive situations.

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

Install quotatool 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 quotatool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install quotatool

Install quotatool 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 quotatool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install quotatool

How To Uninstall quotatool on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove quotatool

quotatool Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/e149f35eaf71d4b323426690670ee83ffe417c
/usr/sbin/quotatool
/usr/share/doc/quotatool
/usr/share/doc/quotatool/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/quotatool/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/quotatool/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/quotatool/README
/usr/share/doc/quotatool/TODO
/usr/share/man/man8/quotatool.8.gz

References

quotatool website

Summary

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