How To Install libspiro on Fedora 34

libspiro is Library to simplify the drawing of beautiful curves Library to simplify the drawing of beautiful curves

Introduction

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

What is `libspiro`

This library will take an array of spiro control points and convert them into a series of bézier splines which can then be used in the myriad of ways the world has come to use béziers. libspiro 20200505 3.fc34 x86_64 44 k libspiro-20200505-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library to simplify the drawing of beautiful curves https GPLv3+ This library will take an array of spiro control points and convert them into a series of bézier splines which can then be used in the myriad of ways the world has come to use béziers.

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

Install libspiro 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 libspiro using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libspiro

Install libspiro 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 libspiro using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libspiro

How To Uninstall libspiro on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libspiro

libspiro Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/28ec99c3459d7bcd99bd9d16d6731159e4441a
/usr/lib64/libspiro.so.1
/usr/lib64/libspiro.so.1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libspiro
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/README
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/README-GeorgeWilliams
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/README-RaphLevien
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libspiro
/usr/share/licenses/libspiro/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/ad5ca1e981dc55a746fb3bcc66a6274c46b520
/usr/lib/libspiro.so.1
/usr/lib/libspiro.so.1.0.1
/usr/share/doc/libspiro
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/README
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/README-GeorgeWilliams
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/README-RaphLevien
/usr/share/doc/libspiro/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libspiro
/usr/share/licenses/libspiro/COPYING

References

[libspiro website](https://github.com/fontforge/libspiro/ https://github.com/fontforge/libspiro/)

Summary

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