How To Install chmlib on Fedora 34

chmlib is Library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files Library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files

Introduction

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

What is `chmlib`

CHMLIB is a library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files. Right now, it is a very simple library, but sufficient for dealing with all of the .chm files I’ve come across. Due to the fairly well-designed indexing built into this particular file format, even a small library is able to gain reasonably good performance indexing into ITSS archives. chmlib 0.40 24.fc34 x86_64 51 k chmlib-0.40-24.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files http LGPLv2+ CHMLIB is a library for dealing with ITSS/CHM format files. Right now, it is a very simple library, but sufficient for dealing with all of the .chm files I’ve come across. Due to the fairly well-designed indexing built into this particular file format, even a small library is able to gain reasonably good performance indexing into ITSS archives.

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

Install chmlib 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 chmlib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install chmlib

Install chmlib 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 chmlib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install chmlib

How To Uninstall chmlib on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove chmlib

chmlib Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/chm_http
/usr/bin/enum_chmLib
/usr/bin/enumdir_chmLib
/usr/bin/extract_chmLib
/usr/bin/test_chmLib
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/964ebb700efb9f4c4c96541d53d15928e09da5
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/8a01d9ae03f403363270553ee4f8bf1b894576
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/7112ea229a948b2520ab3952f6d98f66e9d40c
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/c574916e389e1a9b8437627e1d7a6616253596
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/1d2201eb1e5d4ddc066e65fbac4bcab4dfb805
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/893981ec95ad38e8bf421c10a93d43cf9c21fd
/usr/lib/libchm.so.0
/usr/lib/libchm.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/chmlib
/usr/share/doc/chmlib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/chmlib/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/chmlib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/chmlib/README
/usr/bin/chm_http
/usr/bin/enum_chmLib
/usr/bin/enumdir_chmLib
/usr/bin/extract_chmLib
/usr/bin/test_chmLib
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/b0330bf99126f346cc4e65faca12ba9e7cb652
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/82e99846eb2002607d6eb791709b6986542be8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/92c22b090941d2623edbc7cea82f79312212a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/2b166cc6e266fbe7f693d26a09e50a8c011bae
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/06307180afe5395a4cbb7c2acfe6ef7e3665d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/14052b90bc3465fb9dc42cba0631cb5808abcf
/usr/lib64/libchm.so.0
/usr/lib64/libchm.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/chmlib
/usr/share/doc/chmlib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/chmlib/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/chmlib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/chmlib/README

References

[chmlib website](http://www.jedrea.com/chmlib/ http://www.jedrea.com/chmlib/)

Summary

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