How To Install flickcurl on Fedora 34

flickcurl is C library for the Flickr API C library for the Flickr API

Introduction

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

What is `flickcurl`

Flickcurl is a C library for the Flickr API, handling creating the requests, signing, token management, calling the API, marshalling request parameters and decoding responses. It uses libcurl to call the REST web service and libxml2 to manipulate the XML responses. Flickcurl supports all of the API including the functions for photo/video uploading, browsing, searching, adding and editing comments, groups, notes, photosets, categories, activity, blogs, favorites, places, tags, machine tags, institutions, pandas and photo/video metadata. It also includes a program flickrdf to turn photo metadata, tags, machine tags and places into an RDF triples description. flickcurl 1.26 14.fc34 x86_64 161 k flickcurl-1.26-14.fc34.src.rpm fedora C library for the Flickr API http LGPLv2+ or GPLv2+ or ASL 2.0 Flickcurl is a C library for the Flickr API, handling creating the requests, signing, token management, calling the API, marshalling request parameters and decoding responses. It uses libcurl to call the REST web service and libxml2 to manipulate the XML responses. Flickcurl supports all of the API including the functions for photo/video uploading, browsing, searching, adding and editing comments, groups, notes, photosets, categories, activity, blogs, favorites, places, tags, machine tags, institutions, pandas and photo/video metadata. It also includes a program flickrdf to turn photo metadata, tags, machine tags and places into an RDF triples description.

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

Install flickcurl 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 flickcurl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flickcurl

Install flickcurl 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 flickcurl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flickcurl

How To Uninstall flickcurl on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove flickcurl

flickcurl Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/flickcurl
/usr/bin/flickrdf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/baa61ca2286e085491c40b13cc2dd7aeea6fb5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/dbbd8db9a97b332de858cecc7f62cfe5a9d7be
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/43f22fe090ad028d36f9cdd34d7a6260462fec
/usr/lib64/libflickcurl.so.0
/usr/lib64/libflickcurl.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/flickcurl
/usr/share/doc/flickcurl/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/flickcurl/NOTICE
/usr/share/doc/flickcurl/README
/usr/share/licenses/flickcurl
/usr/share/licenses/flickcurl/LICENSE-2.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/flickcurl/LICENSE.html
/usr/share/man/man1/flickcurl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/flickrdf.1.gz
/usr/bin/flickcurl
/usr/bin/flickrdf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/11a8425ec7bc9e38f5180ce1aade15c9b151b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/9b79908cbe677b1ec796132cac11a0acd217be
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/56cd98e12d8c6fbf8bea7bc4bb6ac271274f35
/usr/lib/libflickcurl.so.0
/usr/lib/libflickcurl.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/flickcurl
/usr/share/doc/flickcurl/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/flickcurl/NOTICE
/usr/share/doc/flickcurl/README
/usr/share/licenses/flickcurl
/usr/share/licenses/flickcurl/LICENSE-2.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/flickcurl/LICENSE.html
/usr/share/man/man1/flickcurl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/flickrdf.1.gz

References

[flickcurl website](http://librdf.org/flickcurl http://librdf.org/flickcurl)

Summary

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