How To Install hawknl on Fedora 34

hawknl is Game oriented network library Game oriented network library

Introduction

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

What is `hawknl`

HawkNL is a free, open source, game oriented network API released under the GNU LGPL. HawkNL (NL) is a fairly low level API, a wrapper over Berkeley/Unix Sockets and Winsock. But NL also provides other features. hawknl 1.68 26.fc34 x86_64 48 k hawknl-1.68-26.fc34.src.rpm fedora Game oriented network library http LGPLv2+ HawkNL is a free, open source, game oriented network API released under the GNU LGPL. HawkNL (NL) is a fairly low level API, a wrapper over Berkeley/Unix Sockets and Winsock. But NL also provides other features.

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

Install hawknl 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 hawknl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hawknl

Install hawknl 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 hawknl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hawknl

How To Uninstall hawknl on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove hawknl

hawknl Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/60f89698f8a700b31144a82d494b36c28119b4
/usr/lib/libNL.so.1.6
/usr/lib/libNL.so.1.6.8
/usr/share/doc/hawknl
/usr/share/doc/hawknl/nlchanges.txt
/usr/share/doc/hawknl/readme.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/653818ae1f066e5d478d1900c7b1f386058ce6
/usr/lib64/libNL.so.1.6
/usr/lib64/libNL.so.1.6.8
/usr/share/doc/hawknl
/usr/share/doc/hawknl/nlchanges.txt
/usr/share/doc/hawknl/readme.txt

References

[hawknl website](http://www.hawksoft.com/hawknl/ http://www.hawksoft.com/hawknl/)

Summary

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