How To Install gflags on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gflags
on Fedora 34.
What is gflags
The gflags package contains a library that implements commandline flags processing. As such it’s a replacement for getopt(). It has increased flexibility, including built-in support for C++ types like string, and the ability to define flags in the source file in which they’re used. gflags 2.2.2 7.fc34 x86_64 93 k gflags-2.2.2-7.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library for commandline flag processing https BSD The gflags package contains a library that implements commandline flags processing. As such it’s a replacement for getopt(). It has increased flexibility, including built-in support for C++ types like string, and the ability to define flags in the source file in which they’re used.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install gflags
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gflags.
Install gflags 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 gflags
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gflags
Install gflags 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 gflags
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gflags
How To Uninstall gflags on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gflags
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gflags
gflags Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/gflags_completions.sh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/2d3a7201ac941b38eee6e623a5d8aa1317c488
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/9581a2bc0ef9208779e605ebedde970f58feaf
/usr/lib/libgflags.so.2.2
/usr/lib/libgflags.so.2.2.2
/usr/lib/libgflags_nothreads.so.2.2
/usr/lib/libgflags_nothreads.so.2.2.2
/usr/share/doc/gflags
/usr/share/doc/gflags/AUTHORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/gflags/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/doc/gflags/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/gflags
/usr/share/licenses/gflags/COPYING.txt
/usr/bin/gflags_completions.sh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/c62a20f02a0ddbe8c5ab8a99cc36809fd42fb1
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/c89ab60d7952a5ff5f290f8c189de540d79f92
/usr/lib64/libgflags.so.2.2
/usr/lib64/libgflags.so.2.2.2
/usr/lib64/libgflags_nothreads.so.2.2
/usr/lib64/libgflags_nothreads.so.2.2.2
/usr/share/doc/gflags
/usr/share/doc/gflags/AUTHORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/gflags/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/doc/gflags/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/gflags
/usr/share/licenses/gflags/COPYING.txt
References
- [gflags website](https://gflags.github.io/gflags/ https://gflags.github.io/gflags/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gflags
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.