How To Install targetcli on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install targetcli in Fedora 36. targetcli is An administration shell for storage targets

Introduction

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

What is targetcli

An administration shell for configuring iSCSI, FCoE, and other SCSI targets, using the TCM/LIO kernel target subsystem. FCoE users will also need to install and use fcoe-utils.

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

Install targetcli 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 targetcli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install targetcli

Install targetcli 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 targetcli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install targetcli

How To Uninstall targetcli on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove targetcli

targetcli Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/target
/etc/target/backup
/usr/bin/targetcli
/usr/bin/targetclid
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_backstore.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_backstore.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_node.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_node.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_root.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_root.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_target.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/ui_target.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/version.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/__pycache__/version.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/ui_backstore.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/ui_node.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/ui_root.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/ui_target.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli/version.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.54-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.54-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.54-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.54-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/targetcli_fb-2.1.54-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/systemd/system/targetclid.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/targetclid.socket
/usr/share/doc/targetcli
/usr/share/doc/targetcli/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/targetcli
/usr/share/licenses/targetcli/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/targetcli.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/targetclid.8.gz

References

Summary

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