How To Install libcephfs2 on Fedora 34

libcephfs2 is Ceph distributed file system client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcephfs2 on Fedora 34.

What is libcephfs2

Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. This is a shared library allowing applications to access a Ceph distributed file system via a POSIX-like interface.

We can use yum or dnf to install libcephfs2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libcephfs2.

Install libcephfs2 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 libcephfs2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcephfs2

Install libcephfs2 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 libcephfs2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcephfs2

How To Uninstall libcephfs2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the libcephfs2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libcephfs2

libcephfs2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/ceph
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/4a634496e2496167e1dc9458ecb64312bc9f2d
/usr/lib64/libcephfs.so.2
/usr/lib64/libcephfs.so.2.0.0
/etc/ceph
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/f2b6ceed50cef627a97318d73a64204af9cfa3
/usr/lib64/libcephfs.so.2
/usr/lib64/libcephfs.so.2.0.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libcephfs2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.