How To Install libmpd on Fedora 34

libmpd is Music Player Daemon Library Music Player Daemon Library

Introduction

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

What is libmpd

libmpd is an abstraction around libmpdclient. It provides an easy and reliable callback based interface to mpd. libmpd 11.8.17 17.fc34 x86_64 57 k libmpd-11.8.17-17.fc34.src.rpm fedora Music Player Daemon Library http GPLv2+ libmpd is an abstraction around libmpdclient. It provides an easy and reliable callback based interface to mpd.

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

Install libmpd 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 libmpd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmpd

Install libmpd 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 libmpd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmpd

How To Uninstall libmpd on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libmpd

libmpd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/c0e6f8ea84f0c759f7092e805c09f7b4b99fc0
/usr/lib/libmpd.so.1
/usr/lib/libmpd.so.1.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libmpd
/usr/share/doc/libmpd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libmpd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libmpd/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/da3e696e976bb634de72f79861815dd7401a59
/usr/lib64/libmpd.so.1
/usr/lib64/libmpd.so.1.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libmpd
/usr/share/doc/libmpd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libmpd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libmpd/README

References

Summary

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