How To Install zincati on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install zincati in Fedora 36. zincati is Update agent for Fedora CoreOS

Introduction

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

What is `zincati`

Update agent for Fedora CoreOS.

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

Install zincati 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 zincati using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zincati

Install zincati 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 zincati using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zincati

How To Uninstall zincati on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove zincati

zincati Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/zincati
/etc/zincati/config.d
/run/zincati
/run/zincati/config.d
/run/zincati/private
/run/zincati/private/metrics.promsock
/run/zincati/public
/run/zincati/public/metrics.promsock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/7cdbaff3ae9548e590bc98c96746736206c429
/usr/lib/systemd/system/zincati.service
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/50-zincati.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/zincati.conf
/usr/lib/zincati
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/10-agent.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/10-auto-updates.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/10-identity.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/30-updates-strategy.toml
/usr/lib/zincati/config.d/50-fedora-coreos-cincinnati.toml
/usr/libexec/zincati
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.coreos.zincati.conf
/usr/share/doc/zincati
/usr/share/doc/zincati/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/zincati
/usr/share/licenses/zincati/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/zincati/LICENSE
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.coreos.zincati.deadend.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/zincati.rules

References

zincati website

Summary

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