How To Install freeimage on Fedora 34

freeimage is Multi-format image decoder library Multi-format image decoder library

Introduction

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

What is freeimage

FreeImage is a library for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today’s multimedia applications. freeimage 3.19.0 0.3.svn1859.fc34 x86_64 362 k freeimage-3.19.0-0.3.svn1859.fc34.src.rpm fedora Multi-format image decoder library http GPLv2 or GPLv3 or MPLv1.0 FreeImage is a library for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today’s multimedia applications.

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

Install freeimage 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 freeimage using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freeimage

Install freeimage 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 freeimage using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freeimage

How To Uninstall freeimage on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove freeimage

freeimage Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/62261aadf6c8eb1cf6b590640194fdfcb8e569
/usr/lib/libfreeimage-3.19.0.so
/usr/lib/libfreeimage.so.3
/usr/share/doc/freeimage
/usr/share/doc/freeimage/Whatsnew.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-fi.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-gplv2.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-gplv3.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/971f5e1ac9b85a2af1b8aaf54b2ece680aa257
/usr/lib64/libfreeimage-3.19.0.so
/usr/lib64/libfreeimage.so.3
/usr/share/doc/freeimage
/usr/share/doc/freeimage/Whatsnew.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-fi.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-gplv2.txt
/usr/share/licenses/freeimage/license-gplv3.txt

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Summary

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