How To Install glcddrivers on Fedora 34

glcddrivers is GraphLCD shared driver library GraphLCD shared driver library

Introduction

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

What is `glcddrivers`

The GraphLCD base is a project to support graphical LC displays. It is mainly used by the graphlcd plugin for the Video Disc Recorder to display its information. This package contains the driver library needed to run programs dynamically linked with GraphLCD. glcddrivers 2.0.2 3.fc34 x86_64 90 k graphlcd-base-2.0.2-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora GraphLCD shared driver library http GPLv2+ The GraphLCD base is a project to support graphical LC displays. It is mainly used by the graphlcd plugin for the Video Disc Recorder to display its information. This package contains the driver library needed to run programs dynamically linked with GraphLCD.

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

Install glcddrivers 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 glcddrivers using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glcddrivers

Install glcddrivers 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 glcddrivers using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glcddrivers

How To Uninstall glcddrivers on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove glcddrivers

glcddrivers Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/3cec4eae0ae61151d713a71cbe86fe4eaba4a3
/usr/lib64/libglcddrivers.so.2
/usr/lib64/libglcddrivers.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/glcddrivers
/usr/share/doc/glcddrivers/README
/usr/share/licenses/glcddrivers
/usr/share/licenses/glcddrivers/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/8f4a69b96b7e17730303b7406c4f8c7d9a918c
/usr/lib/libglcddrivers.so.2
/usr/lib/libglcddrivers.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/glcddrivers
/usr/share/doc/glcddrivers/README
/usr/share/licenses/glcddrivers
/usr/share/licenses/glcddrivers/COPYING

References

[glcddrivers website](http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/graphlcd http://projects.vdr-developer.org/projects/graphlcd)

Summary

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