How To Install tini on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install tini in Fedora 36. tini is A tiny but valid init for containers

Introduction

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

What is `tini`

Tini is the simplest init you could think of. All Tini does is spawn a single child (Tini is meant to be run in a container), and wait for it to exit all the while reaping zombies and performing signal forwarding.

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

Install tini 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 tini using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tini

Install tini 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 tini using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tini

How To Uninstall tini on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove tini

tini Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/tini
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/6b2109160817fa679d388d937de7c66d4a2765
/usr/share/doc/tini
/usr/share/doc/tini/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/tini
/usr/share/licenses/tini/LICENSE

References

tini website

Summary

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