How To Install usermode on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install usermode in Fedora 36. usermode is Tools for certain user account management tasks

Introduction

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

What is `usermode`

The usermode package contains the userhelper program, which can be used to allow configured programs to be run with superuser privileges by ordinary users.

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

Install usermode 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 usermode using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install usermode

Install usermode 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 usermode using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install usermode

How To Uninstall usermode on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove usermode

usermode Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/security/console.apps/config-util
/usr/bin/consolehelper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/e797c570b3478749c73072751f861a16ae9cd1
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/f353b15fc87bfe2917f236be9c650efeeef3a2
/usr/sbin/userhelper
/usr/share/doc/usermode
/usr/share/doc/usermode/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/usermode/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/usermode/README
/usr/share/licenses/usermode
/usr/share/licenses/usermode/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/consolehelper.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/userhelper.8.gz

References

usermode website

Summary

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