How To Install freexl on Fedora 34

freexl is Library to extract data from within an Excel spreadsheet Library to extract data from within an Excel spreadsheet

Introduction

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

What is freexl

FreeXL is a library to extract valid data from within an Excel spreadsheet (.xls) Design goals * simple and lightweight * stable, robust and efficient * easily and universally portable * completely ignore any GUI-related oddity freexl 1.0.6 2.fc34 x86_64 36 k freexl-1.0.6-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library to extract data from within an Excel spreadsheet http MPLv1.1 or GPLv2+ or LGPLv2+ FreeXL is a library to extract valid data from within an Excel spreadsheet (.xls) Design goals * simple and lightweight * stable, robust and efficient * easily and universally portable * completely ignore any GUI-related oddity

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

Install freexl 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 freexl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freexl

Install freexl 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 freexl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freexl

How To Uninstall freexl on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove freexl

freexl Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/7c2add148833dd0dcdb156914243a3ca526a5c
/usr/lib/libfreexl.so.1
/usr/lib/libfreexl.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/freexl
/usr/share/doc/freexl/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/freexl/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/freexl/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/5f5eea8c6cbbfc5f9034333ba6b06f5fdd8b99
/usr/lib64/libfreexl.so.1
/usr/lib64/libfreexl.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/freexl
/usr/share/doc/freexl/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/freexl/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/freexl/README

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Summary

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