How To Install build2 on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install build2
on Fedora 34.
What is build2
build2 is an open source (MIT), cross-platform build toolchain for developing and packaging C++ code. It is a hierarchy of tools that includes the build system, package dependency manager (for package consumption), and project dependency manager (for project development). Key features * Next-generation, Cargo-like integrated build toolchain for C++. * Covers entire project life cycle delivery. * Uniform and consistent interface across all platforms and compilers. * Fast, multi-threaded build system with parallel building and testing. * Archive and version control-based package repositories. * Dependency-free, all you need is a C++ compiler.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install build2
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install build2.
Install build2 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 build2
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install build2
Install build2 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 build2
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install build2
How To Uninstall build2 on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the build2
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove build2
build2 Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/b
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/aef4ff00312755fc0c331d3f3a59d2645e89f5
/usr/share/doc/build2
/usr/share/doc/build2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/build2/README
/usr/share/licenses/build2
/usr/share/licenses/build2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/build2/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/b.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install build2
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.