# How to get mender-connect for fedora?

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/how-to-get-mender-connect-for-fedora/3826>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [July 5, 2021, 8:36am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-to-get-mender-connect-for-fedora/3826 "2021-07-05T08:36:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![salma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@salma](https://hub.mender.io/u/salma)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 8:36am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-to-get-mender-connect-for-fedora/3826/1 "2021-07-05T08:36:39Z")

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Hello everyone,

I want to use the remote terminal for a target running on a fedora distro, but I fail to find the mender-connect binary to install.

Where can I find the binary if available? If not how should I proceed?

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**Author:** ![lramirez](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/lramirez/32/1195_2.png) [@lramirez](https://hub.mender.io/u/lramirez)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-to-get-mender-connect-for-fedora/3826/2 "2021-07-05T19:21:29Z")

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The short answer is, “we don’t provide RPM packages.” We provide packages for Debian-based systems or Yocto projects. On the other hand, I am a Fedora user too, so I tried to install mender-connect on my device.

Please be aware this will work as long as you have the mender-client already working on your Fedora device ([GitHub - mendersoftware/mender at 2.6.0](https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender/tree/2.6.0#installing-from-source)). If so, these are the steps I followed to make **mender-connect** work on **Fedora** :

1. Make sure Go lang support is installed:

`$ sudo dnf install golang`

1. Then clone the mender-connect [GitHub - mendersoftware/mender-connect](https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-connect) repository

`$ git clone https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender-connect.git`

1. Build and install mender connect

```auto
$ make
$ sudo make install

```

1. Create the configuration file in /etc/mender/mender-connect.conf  
**Note: you can change “nobody” for any local user.**

```auto
{
  "ShellCommand": "/bin/bash",
  "User": "nobody"
}

```

1. Enable and start the service

`$ systemctl enable mender-connect && systemctl start mender-connect`

1. You will be able to see the “troubleshoot” add-on in [Mender.io](http://Mender.io)’s UI. **Please be aware this will only work if you have the add-on enabled.**