How To Install jansson on Fedora 34

jansson is C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

Introduction

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

What is `jansson`

Small library for parsing and writing JSON documents. jansson 2.13.1 2.fc34 x86_64 45 k jansson-2.13.1-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data http MIT Small library for parsing and writing JSON documents.

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

Install jansson 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 jansson using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jansson

Install jansson 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 jansson using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jansson

How To Uninstall jansson on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jansson

jansson Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/596e61f54908c967c3cdc4a10f2a68f44a03f3
/usr/lib/libjansson.so.4
/usr/lib/libjansson.so.4.13.0
/usr/share/doc/jansson
/usr/share/doc/jansson/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/jansson
/usr/share/licenses/jansson/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/28353bc76f0912db81d7f9949c0ac8f3afca90
/usr/lib64/libjansson.so.4
/usr/lib64/libjansson.so.4.13.0
/usr/share/doc/jansson
/usr/share/doc/jansson/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/jansson
/usr/share/licenses/jansson/LICENSE

References

[jansson website](http://www.digip.org/jansson/ http://www.digip.org/jansson/)

Summary

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