How To Install cbindgen on Fedora 34

cbindgen is Tool for generating C bindings to Rust code

Introduction

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

What is cbindgen

Tool for generating C bindings to Rust code.

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

Install cbindgen 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 cbindgen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cbindgen

Install cbindgen 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 cbindgen using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cbindgen

How To Uninstall cbindgen on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove cbindgen

cbindgen Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cbindgen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/76dba7ccec2a3575380998d8f77380fd60675c
/usr/share/doc/cbindgen
/usr/share/doc/cbindgen/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/cbindgen/README.md
/usr/share/doc/cbindgen/contributing.md
/usr/share/doc/cbindgen/docs.md
/usr/share/doc/cbindgen/internals.md
/usr/share/licenses/cbindgen
/usr/share/licenses/cbindgen/LICENSE

References

Summary

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