How To Install coccinelle on Fedora 34
coccinelle is Semantic patching for Linux (spatch)
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install coccinelle on Fedora 34.
What is coccinelle
Coccinelle is a tool to utilize semantic patches for manipulating C code. It was originally designed to ease maintenance of device drivers in the Linux kernel.
We can use yum or dnf to install coccinelle on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install coccinelle.
Install coccinelle 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 coccinelle using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install coccinelle
Install coccinelle 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 coccinelle using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install coccinelle
How To Uninstall coccinelle on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the coccinelle package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove coccinelle
coccinelle Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/pycocci
/usr/bin/spatch
/usr/bin/spgen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/ac2a87c85e36884afb18d26be7c0e34718f8d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/54b49577575be14820eac28b1597a400b7febe
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/cd38c4407fe0bfb07d691d801ee9f1daa4fee2
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/elems.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/elems.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/iteration.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/iteration.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/org.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/org.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/output.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/output.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/report.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/report.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/trac.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/trac.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/xml_firehose.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/__pycache__/xml_firehose.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/elems.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/iteration.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/org.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/output.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/report.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/trac.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/coccilib/xml_firehose.py
/usr/lib64/coccinelle
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/ast0_cocci.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/ast_c.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/ast_cocci.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/coccilib.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/commands.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/common.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/config.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/dumper.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/exposed_modules.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/externalanalysis.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/flag.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/flag_parsing_c.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/iteration.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/lexer_c.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/lib_parsing_c.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/ocamlcocci_aux.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/parmap.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/parse_c.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/parser_c.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/prepare_ocamlcocci.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/pretty_print_c.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/regexp.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/run_ocamlcocci.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/token_c.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/visitor_c.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/ocaml/yes_prepare_ocamlcocci.cmi
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/spatch
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/standard.h
/usr/lib64/coccinelle/standard.iso
/usr/lib64/ocaml/ast0_cocci.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/ast_c.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/ast_cocci.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/coccilib.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/commands.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/common.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/config.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/dumper.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/exposed_modules.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/externalanalysis.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/flag.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/flag_parsing_c.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/iteration.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/lexer_c.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/lib_parsing_c.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/ocamlcocci_aux.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/parmap.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/parse_c.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/parser_c.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/prepare_ocamlcocci.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/pretty_print_c.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/regexp.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/run_ocamlcocci.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/stublibs/dllpyml_stubs.so
/usr/lib64/ocaml/token_c.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/visitor_c.cmx
/usr/lib64/ocaml/yes_prepare_ocamlcocci.cmx
/usr/share/doc/coccinelle
/usr/share/doc/coccinelle/authors.txt
/usr/share/doc/coccinelle/bugs.txt
/usr/share/doc/coccinelle/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/coccinelle/credits.txt
/usr/share/doc/coccinelle/install.txt
/usr/share/doc/coccinelle/readme.txt
/usr/share/licenses/coccinelle
/usr/share/licenses/coccinelle/copyright.txt
/usr/share/licenses/coccinelle/license.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/pycocci.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/spatch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/spgen.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Coccilib.3cocci.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install coccinelle on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.