How To Install eclib on Fedora 34

eclib is Library for Computations on Elliptic Curves Library for Computations on Elliptic Curves

Introduction

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

What is eclib

John Cremona’s programs for enumerating and computing with elliptic curves defined over the rational numbers. eclib 20210625 1.fc34 x86_64 1.0 M eclib-20210625-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Library for Computations on Elliptic Curves http GPLv2+ John Cremona’s programs for enumerating and computing with elliptic curves defined over the rational numbers.

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

Install eclib 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 eclib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install eclib

Install eclib 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 eclib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install eclib

How To Uninstall eclib on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove eclib

eclib Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/mwrank
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/72095e12900d1eab6380d7e7d8b7a1ddbe4c00
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/d13efbb48ce59ff2711e3551d4860a9972ccfc
/usr/lib64/libec.so.8
/usr/lib64/libec.so.8.1.3
/usr/share/doc/eclib
/usr/share/doc/eclib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/eclib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/eclib/README
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.changes
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.info
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.options
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.readme
/usr/share/licenses/eclib
/usr/share/licenses/eclib/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/mwrank.1.gz
/usr/bin/mwrank
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/e3368d67604bea654a8759efbf363444fddce4
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/aeaf457ea8995271656ed586a128f417a5f747
/usr/lib/libec.so.6
/usr/lib/libec.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/eclib
/usr/share/doc/eclib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/eclib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/eclib/README
/usr/share/doc/eclib/README.md
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.changes
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.info
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.options
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.readme
/usr/share/licenses/eclib
/usr/share/licenses/eclib/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/mwrank.1.gz
/usr/bin/mwrank
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/23fc34fa9c754e2d260a5e93d5b7b07ea08651
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/b17d5c97bf55d260a1608ff897039c7f713a8a
/usr/lib64/libec.so.6
/usr/lib64/libec.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/eclib
/usr/share/doc/eclib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/eclib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/eclib/README
/usr/share/doc/eclib/README.md
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.changes
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.info
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.options
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.readme
/usr/share/licenses/eclib
/usr/share/licenses/eclib/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/mwrank.1.gz
/usr/bin/mwrank
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/e5534ec8d9811e9737865d96bee5c9150b51c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/82f3254376fd9458b661dcad83463b90f28818
/usr/lib/libec.so.8
/usr/lib/libec.so.8.1.3
/usr/share/doc/eclib
/usr/share/doc/eclib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/eclib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/eclib/README
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.changes
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.info
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.options
/usr/share/doc/eclib/mwrank/mwrank.readme
/usr/share/licenses/eclib
/usr/share/licenses/eclib/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/mwrank.1.gz

References

Summary

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