How To Install libtevent on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtevent in Fedora 36. libtevent is The tevent library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtevent on Fedora 36.

What is libtevent

Tevent is an event system based on the talloc memory management library. Tevent has support for many event types, including timers, signals, and the classic file descriptor events. Tevent also provide helpers to deal with asynchronous code providing the tevent_req (Tevent Request) functions.

We can use yum or dnf to install libtevent on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libtevent.

Install libtevent on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libtevent using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libtevent

Install libtevent on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libtevent using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libtevent

How To Uninstall libtevent on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove libtevent

libtevent Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/1dba43f2fadd932e76b152eacf5f0caa56c322
/usr/lib64/libtevent.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtevent.so.0.11.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/4c216f51fdb81340574329a31c3939c1b1a141
/usr/lib64/libtevent.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtevent.so.0.12.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtevent on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).