How To Install arb on Fedora 34

arb is Arbitrary-precision floating point ball arithmetic Arbitrary-precision floating point ball arithmetic

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install arb on Fedora 34.

What is arb

Arb is a C library for arbitrary-precision floating-point ball arithmetic. It supports efficient high-precision computation with polynomials, power series, matrices and special functions over the real and complex numbers, with automatic, rigorous error control. arb 2.19.0 3.fc34 x86_64 1.0 M arb-2.19.0-3.fc34.src.rpm updates Arbitrary-precision floating point ball arithmetic http LGPLv2+ Arb is a C library for arbitrary-precision floating-point ball arithmetic. It supports efficient high-precision computation with polynomials, power series, matrices and special functions over the real and complex numbers, with automatic, rigorous error control.

We can use yum or dnf to install arb on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install arb.

Install arb on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install arb using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install arb

Install arb on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install arb using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install arb

How To Uninstall arb on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove arb

arb Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/7e6f975a67618ba531ca8dcdb4d8d96c3a8e31
/usr/lib/libarb.so.2
/usr/lib/libarb.so.2.10.0
/usr/share/doc/arb
/usr/share/doc/arb/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/arb
/usr/share/licenses/arb/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/1fd8c0e32bb1eb19c2b758024d8a999ae665f3
/usr/lib64/libarb.so.2
/usr/lib64/libarb.so.2.10.0
/usr/share/doc/arb
/usr/share/doc/arb/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/arb
/usr/share/licenses/arb/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/6c871b6865e3180029bb7a7651f1d9fe80f382
/usr/lib64/libarb.so.2
/usr/lib64/libarb.so.2.10.0
/usr/share/doc/arb
/usr/share/doc/arb/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/arb
/usr/share/licenses/arb/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/edd86062bb03e9bc4353cef6f3f05a8d110bf5
/usr/lib/libarb.so.2
/usr/lib/libarb.so.2.10.0
/usr/share/doc/arb
/usr/share/doc/arb/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/arb
/usr/share/licenses/arb/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install arb on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.