How To Install gperf on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperf on Fedora 34.
What is gperf
Gperf is a perfect hash function generator written in C++. Simply stated, a perfect hash function is a hash function and a data structure that allows recognition of a key word in a set of words using exactly one probe into the data structure.
We can use yum or dnf to install gperf on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gperf.
Install gperf 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 gperf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gperf
Install gperf 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 gperf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gperf
How To Uninstall gperf on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gperf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gperf
gperf Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/gperf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/d488c6dbab241a11fa79d40039fce7adcedcec
/usr/share/doc/gperf
/usr/share/doc/gperf/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gperf/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gperf/README
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf.pdf
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_1.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_10.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_2.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_3.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_4.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_5.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_6.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_7.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_8.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_9.html
/usr/share/doc/gperf/gperf_toc.html
/usr/share/info/gperf.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gperf.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gperf on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.