How To Install ffcall on Fedora 34

ffcall is Libraries for foreign function call interfaces Libraries for foreign function call interfaces

Introduction

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

What is ffcall

This is a collection of four libraries which can be used to build foreign function call interfaces in embedded interpreters. The four packages are - avcall - vacall - trampoline - callback (a reentrant combination of vacall and trampoline) ffcall 2.4 1.fc34 x86_64 36 k ffcall-2.4-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Libraries for foreign function call interfaces http GPLv2+ This is a collection of four libraries which can be used to build foreign function call interfaces in embedded interpreters. The four packages are - avcall - vacall - trampoline - callback (a reentrant combination of vacall and trampoline)

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

Install ffcall 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 ffcall using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ffcall

Install ffcall 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 ffcall using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ffcall

How To Uninstall ffcall on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ffcall

ffcall Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/85592a49d5e6ac87b8663ec3d64201668ae7c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/4edeb27610a182dd225f6ee01d795a70c8b1f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/d2c0519ec922230899b9709d5d54d37c911a76
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/3528498a007ce0635230cb9c9629fd7079484c
/usr/lib64/libavcall.so.1
/usr/lib64/libavcall.so.1.1.0
/usr/lib64/libcallback.so.1
/usr/lib64/libcallback.so.1.0.4
/usr/lib64/libffcall.so.0
/usr/lib64/libffcall.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib64/libtrampoline.so.1
/usr/lib64/libtrampoline.so.1.0.3
/usr/share/doc/ffcall
/usr/share/doc/ffcall/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ffcall/README
/usr/share/licenses/ffcall
/usr/share/licenses/ffcall/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/4b7252855f04080f07c8635aee4ebc6bba0bb1
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/4964865056bfd234761265db591305cb34f7d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/f41824e281e87092d828f27848684bd0a64839
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/6ff324c786121f66f3385759f70365a668eb59
/usr/lib/libavcall.so.1
/usr/lib/libavcall.so.1.1.0
/usr/lib/libcallback.so.1
/usr/lib/libcallback.so.1.0.4
/usr/lib/libffcall.so.0
/usr/lib/libffcall.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib/libtrampoline.so.1
/usr/lib/libtrampoline.so.1.0.3
/usr/share/doc/ffcall
/usr/share/doc/ffcall/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ffcall/README
/usr/share/licenses/ffcall
/usr/share/licenses/ffcall/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/7be28cbd210794ab78252af48eb44e23c28452
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/0a6c2016271bcf7c7780c103e434d449ac41ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/1a30e262327e5347210ebc034e90574dcd1791
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/f80bbe77cebebfa6a2651a7cc2e9b396b5ac31
/usr/lib64/libavcall.so.1
/usr/lib64/libavcall.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib64/libcallback.so.1
/usr/lib64/libcallback.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib64/libffcall.so.0
/usr/lib64/libffcall.so.0.0.2
/usr/lib64/libtrampoline.so.1
/usr/lib64/libtrampoline.so.1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/ffcall
/usr/share/doc/ffcall/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ffcall/README
/usr/share/licenses/ffcall
/usr/share/licenses/ffcall/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/125bc09c7dd1dd236e229eafca8e6c48aab1ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/585ca14abf5f1c9e8026a67eb6a175bed74b7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/5ca9d1c05476f17d35179498e437396457554a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/a0a3ff73101a86d0e584646b8bc4eb6b2d481c
/usr/lib/libavcall.so.1
/usr/lib/libavcall.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib/libcallback.so.1
/usr/lib/libcallback.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib/libffcall.so.0
/usr/lib/libffcall.so.0.0.2
/usr/lib/libtrampoline.so.1
/usr/lib/libtrampoline.so.1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/ffcall
/usr/share/doc/ffcall/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ffcall/README
/usr/share/licenses/ffcall
/usr/share/licenses/ffcall/COPYING

References

Summary

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