How To Install vips on Fedora 34

vips is C/C++ library for processing large images C/C++ library for processing large images

Introduction

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

What is vips

VIPS is an image processing library. It is good for very large images (even larger than the amount of RAM in your machine), and for working with color. This package should be installed if you want to use a program compiled against VIPS. vips 8.10.6 1.fc34 x86_64 1.4 M vips-8.10.6-1.fc34.src.rpm updates C/C++ library for processing large images https LGPLv2+ VIPS is an image processing library. It is good for very large images (even larger than the amount of RAM in your machine), and for working with color. This package should be installed if you want to use a program compiled against VIPS.

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

Install vips 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 vips using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vips

Install vips 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 vips using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vips

How To Uninstall vips on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vips

vips Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/36ae4ca5f34291f2a82d462d6ee9cb94aed435
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/ba28497f23dd860a7ae370e8f8258e97878c30
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Vips-8.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libvips-cpp.so.42
/usr/lib/libvips-cpp.so.42.12.6
/usr/lib/libvips.so.42
/usr/lib/libvips.so.42.12.6
/usr/share/doc/vips
/usr/share/doc/vips/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/vips/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/vips/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/vips/README.md
/usr/share/doc/vips/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/vips
/usr/share/licenses/vips/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/vips8.10.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/vips8.10.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/d13fc0be8e1db6484533d9aa3f1a80eaf4dd28
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/317442049fb78c41b6ec9c7d3af43647c98d57
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Vips-8.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libvips-cpp.so.42
/usr/lib/libvips-cpp.so.42.12.7
/usr/lib/libvips.so.42
/usr/lib/libvips.so.42.12.7
/usr/share/doc/vips
/usr/share/doc/vips/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/vips/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/vips/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/vips/README.md
/usr/share/doc/vips/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/vips
/usr/share/licenses/vips/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/vips8.10.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/vips8.10.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/d4b18c7b41706e23da1c50063c14a41a7aa269
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/c8ceaf4911675788d6d29d8d22cfc412ef40e7
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Vips-8.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libvips-cpp.so.42
/usr/lib64/libvips-cpp.so.42.12.6
/usr/lib64/libvips.so.42
/usr/lib64/libvips.so.42.12.6
/usr/share/doc/vips
/usr/share/doc/vips/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/vips/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/vips/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/vips/README.md
/usr/share/doc/vips/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/vips
/usr/share/licenses/vips/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/vips8.10.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/vips8.10.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/a82e59a0d97a944bbb0c5dd9b9197d196dcc07
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/8f4551ccb913c98258b96cf7dfad438d5baa3c
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Vips-8.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libvips-cpp.so.42
/usr/lib64/libvips-cpp.so.42.12.7
/usr/lib64/libvips.so.42
/usr/lib64/libvips.so.42.12.7
/usr/share/doc/vips
/usr/share/doc/vips/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/vips/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/vips/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/vips/README.md
/usr/share/doc/vips/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/vips
/usr/share/licenses/vips/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/vips8.10.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/vips8.10.mo

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Summary

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