How To Install snapper on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install snapper in Fedora 36. snapper is Tool for filesystem snapshot management

Introduction

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

What is `snapper`

This package contains snapper, a tool for filesystem snapshot management.

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

Install snapper 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 snapper using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install snapper

Install snapper 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 snapper using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install snapper

How To Uninstall snapper on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove snapper

snapper Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/logrotate.d/snapper
/usr/bin/snapper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/9ee8413524e4ba59d44982711f0a2b15dd8b2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/b138da0b8fe5e7a6e8dd7fb79c753ecf78933e
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/f03f1326c8597bab1199c88b9e3201b26ca02e
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/eac59dba3b5ed768aed79a45f36fd5b6383ef4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/74d289c0b88562eee6e729cc6c3ef50abbe6eb
/usr/lib/systemd/system/snapper-boot.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/snapper-boot.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/snapper-cleanup.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/snapper-cleanup.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/snapper-timeline.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/snapper-timeline.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/snapperd.service
/usr/libexec/snapper
/usr/libexec/snapper/installation-helper
/usr/libexec/snapper/systemd-helper
/usr/sbin/mksubvolume
/usr/sbin/snapperd
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/snapper
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.opensuse.Snapper.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.opensuse.Snapper.conf
/usr/share/doc/snapper
/usr/share/doc/snapper/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/snapper
/usr/share/licenses/snapper/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/lo/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/snapper.mo
/usr/share/man/man5/snapper-configs.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mksubvolume.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/snapper.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/snapperd.8.gz

References

snapper website

Summary

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