How To Install veritysetup on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install veritysetup in Fedora 36. veritysetup is A utility for setting up dm-verity volumes

Introduction

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

What is `veritysetup`

The veritysetup package contains a utility for setting up disk verification using dm-verity kernel module.

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

Install veritysetup 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 veritysetup using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install veritysetup

Install veritysetup 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 veritysetup using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install veritysetup

How To Uninstall veritysetup on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove veritysetup

veritysetup Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/27a9be555b156f27a18e95645b82b403014d2b
/usr/sbin/veritysetup
/usr/share/licenses/veritysetup
/usr/share/licenses/veritysetup/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/veritysetup.8.gz

References

veritysetup website

Summary

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