How To Install gnatcoll on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnatcoll on Fedora 34.
What is gnatcoll
The GNAT Components Collection is a library of general-purpose packages that are part of the GNAT technology. The components complement the predefined Ada and GNAT libraries and deal with a range of common programming issues including string and text processing, memory management, and file handling. Gnatcoll has been divided into separate modules. The gnatcoll package pulls in the binaries of all the modules to prevent problems when Fedora is upgraded. Do not specify this package in any configurations or dependencies. Specify the packages you actually need.
We can use yum or dnf to install gnatcoll on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnatcoll.
Install gnatcoll 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 gnatcoll using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnatcoll
Install gnatcoll 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 gnatcoll using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnatcoll
How To Uninstall gnatcoll on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gnatcoll package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnatcoll
gnatcoll Package Contents on Fedora 34
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnatcoll on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.