How To Install libliftoff on Fedora 34

libliftoff is Lightweight KMS plane library Lightweight KMS plane library

Introduction

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

What is libliftoff

libliftoff eases the use of KMS planes from userspace without standing in your way. Users create “virtual planes” called layers, set KMS properties on them, and libliftoff will allocate planes for these layers if possible. libliftoff 0.0.0~git20201110.24abeb9 1.fc34 x86_64 22 k libliftoff-0.0.0~git20201110.24abeb9-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Lightweight KMS plane library https MIT libliftoff eases the use of KMS planes from userspace without standing in your way. Users create “virtual planes” called layers, set KMS properties on them, and libliftoff will allocate planes for these layers if possible.

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

Install libliftoff 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 libliftoff using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libliftoff

Install libliftoff 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 libliftoff using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libliftoff

How To Uninstall libliftoff on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libliftoff

libliftoff Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/f3f623ec3aa0c2485c12478ac7e2f0023638cd
/usr/lib64/libliftoff.so.0
/usr/lib64/libliftoff.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libliftoff
/usr/share/doc/libliftoff/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libliftoff
/usr/share/licenses/libliftoff/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/4c91ea65e2b6b6f415e3e79e5664d40ed11fed
/usr/lib64/libliftoff.so.0
/usr/lib64/libliftoff.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libliftoff
/usr/share/doc/libliftoff/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libliftoff
/usr/share/licenses/libliftoff/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/2fc8a11a430c1d8ac39468e6c83a8cac391b53
/usr/lib/libliftoff.so.0
/usr/lib/libliftoff.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libliftoff
/usr/share/doc/libliftoff/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libliftoff
/usr/share/licenses/libliftoff/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/b3752946a0dbe9498007a2a8f8d85cc2d94d9e
/usr/lib/libliftoff.so.0
/usr/lib/libliftoff.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libliftoff
/usr/share/doc/libliftoff/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libliftoff
/usr/share/licenses/libliftoff/LICENSE

References

Summary

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