How To Install gloox on Fedora 34

gloox is A rock-solid, full-featured Jabber/XMPP client C++ library A rock-solid, full-featured Jabber/XMPP client C++ library

Introduction

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

What is `gloox`

gloox is a rock-solid, full-featured Jabber/XMPP client library written in C++. It makes writing spec-compliant clients easy and allows for hassle-free integration of Jabber/XMPP functionality into existing applications. gloox 1 1.0.23 4.fc34 x86_64 441 k gloox-1.0.23-4.fc34.src.rpm fedora A rock-solid, full-featured Jabber/XMPP client C++ library https GPLv3 gloox is a rock-solid, full-featured Jabber/XMPP client library written in C++. It makes writing spec-compliant clients easy and allows for hassle-free integration of Jabber/XMPP functionality into existing applications.

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

Install gloox 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 gloox using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gloox

Install gloox 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 gloox using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gloox

How To Uninstall gloox on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gloox

gloox Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/1602f04205d853c1bdc6500a5b112d4af997ef
/usr/lib64/libgloox.so.17
/usr/lib64/libgloox.so.17.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/gloox
/usr/share/licenses/gloox/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/95d6d82a4db58281b92323bc247e1a0186a239
/usr/lib/libgloox.so.17
/usr/lib/libgloox.so.17.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/gloox
/usr/share/licenses/gloox/LICENSE

References

[gloox website](https://camaya.net/gloox https://camaya.net/gloox)

Summary

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