How To Install libbase on Fedora 34

libbase is JFree Base Services

Introduction

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

What is libbase

LibBase is a library developed to provide base services like logging, configuration and initialization to other libraries and applications. The library is the root library for all Pentaho-Reporting projects.

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

Install libbase 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 libbase using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libbase

Install libbase 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 libbase using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libbase

How To Uninstall libbase on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libbase

libbase Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/doc/libbase
/usr/share/doc/libbase/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/doc/libbase/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/libbase/licence-LGPL.txt
/usr/share/java/libbase.jar

References

Summary

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