How To Install libassuan on Fedora 34

libassuan is GnuPG IPC library GnuPG IPC library

Introduction

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

What is libassuan

This is the IPC library used by GnuPG 2, GPGME and a few other packages. libassuan 2.5.5 1.fc34 i686 70 k libassuan-2.5.5-1.fc34.src.rpm fedora GnuPG IPC library https LGPLv2+ and GPLv3+ This is the IPC library used by GnuPG 2, GPGME and a few other packages.

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

Install libassuan 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 libassuan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libassuan

Install libassuan 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 libassuan using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libassuan

How To Uninstall libassuan on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libassuan

libassuan Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/b7fb8fbf7b7e44d2768bf0b691fe170d1fb4e8
/usr/lib64/libassuan.so.0
/usr/lib64/libassuan.so.0.8.5
/usr/share/doc/libassuan
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/README
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan/COPYING.LIB
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/71b090e4a7791a73b8c277cb7c15616df0e4a8
/usr/lib/libassuan.so.0
/usr/lib/libassuan.so.0.8.5
/usr/share/doc/libassuan
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libassuan/README
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libassuan/COPYING.LIB

References

Summary

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