How To Install libcorrect on Fedora 34

libcorrect is C library for Convolutional codes and Reed-Solomon C library for Convolutional codes and Reed-Solomon

Introduction

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

What is `libcorrect`

libcorrect is a library for Forward Error Correction. By using libcorrect, extra redundancy can be encoded into a packet of data and then be sent across a lossy channel. When the packet is received, it can be decoded to recover the original, pre-encoded data. libcorrect 0 5.20181010gitf5a28c7.fc34 x86_64 28 k libcorrect-0-5.20181010gitf5a28c7.fc34.src.rpm fedora C library for Convolutional codes and Reed-Solomon https BSD libcorrect is a library for Forward Error Correction. By using libcorrect, extra redundancy can be encoded into a packet of data and then be sent across a lossy channel. When the packet is received, it can be decoded to recover the original, pre-encoded data.

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

Install libcorrect 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 libcorrect using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libcorrect

Install libcorrect 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 libcorrect using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libcorrect

How To Uninstall libcorrect on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libcorrect

libcorrect Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/9b068c8b3e6c1b0f00afa2aa71ab9004f73d27
/usr/lib64/libcorrect.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libcorrect
/usr/share/doc/libcorrect/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libcorrect
/usr/share/licenses/libcorrect/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/af9a1375873acd4ca5281362b16a623881912b
/usr/lib/libcorrect.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libcorrect
/usr/share/doc/libcorrect/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libcorrect
/usr/share/licenses/libcorrect/LICENSE

References

[libcorrect website](https://github.com/quiet/libcorrect https://github.com/quiet/libcorrect)

Summary

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