How To Install salt-minion on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install salt-minion on Fedora 36.
What is salt-minion
The Salt minion is the agent component of Salt. It listens for instructions from the master, runs jobs, and returns results back to the master. Supports Python 3.
We can use yum or dnf to install salt-minion on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install salt-minion.
Install salt-minion 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 salt-minion using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install salt-minion
Install salt-minion 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 salt-minion using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install salt-minion
How To Uninstall salt-minion on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the salt-minion package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove salt-minion
salt-minion Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/salt/minion
/etc/salt/minion.d
/etc/salt/pki/minion
/etc/salt/proxy
/usr/bin/salt-call
/usr/bin/salt-minion
/usr/bin/salt-proxy
/usr/lib/systemd/system/salt-minion.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/man/man1/salt-call.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/salt-minion.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/salt-proxy.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install salt-minion on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
