How To Install usnic-tools on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install usnic-tools in Fedora 36. usnic-tools is Diagnostic tool for Cisco usNIC devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install usnic-tools on Fedora 36.

What is `usnic-tools`

This is a simple tool for extracting some diagnostics and informational meta data out of Cisco usNIC devices using the Cisco usNIC extensions in libfabric.

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

Install usnic-tools 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 usnic-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install usnic-tools

Install usnic-tools 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 usnic-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install usnic-tools

How To Uninstall usnic-tools on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the usnic-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove usnic-tools

usnic-tools Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/usnic_devinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/032bcbe9508912efa308d58be4750139c51c96
/usr/share/doc/usnic-tools
/usr/share/doc/usnic-tools/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/usnic-tools
/usr/share/licenses/usnic-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/usnic_devinfo.1.gz

References

usnic-tools website

Summary

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