How To Install gn on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gn on Fedora 34.
What is gn
GN is a meta-build system that generates build files for Ninja.
We can use yum or dnf to install gn on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gn.
Install gn 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 gn using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gn
Install gn 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 gn using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gn
How To Uninstall gn on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gn package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gn
gn Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/gn
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/f527c8b399e6ec757f5c55f6d66a5b204091f9
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/gn-mode.el
/usr/share/licenses/gn
/usr/share/licenses/gn/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/gn.1.gz
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/autoload/gn.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/gnfiletype.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/gn.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/gn-format.py
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/gn.vim
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gn on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.