How To Install copydeps on Fedora 34

copydeps is Find and copy all the .so / .dll files needed by an executable

Introduction

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

What is copydeps

Find and copy all the .so / .dll files needed by an executable.

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

Install copydeps 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 copydeps using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install copydeps

Install copydeps 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 copydeps using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install copydeps

How To Uninstall copydeps on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove copydeps

copydeps Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/copydeps
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/799be0c242629f20627c382b11d56a63c05cf7
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/copydeps
/usr/share/doc/copydeps
/usr/share/doc/copydeps/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/copydeps
/usr/share/licenses/copydeps/LICENCE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/copydeps.1.gz

References

Summary

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