How To Install libdaemon on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdaemon
on Fedora 34.
What is libdaemon
libdaemon is a lightweight C library which eases the writing of UNIX daemons. It consists of the following parts * A wrapper around fork() which does the correct daemonization procedure of a process * A wrapper around syslog() for simpler and compatible log output to Syslog or STDERR * An API for writing PID files * An API for serializing UNIX signals into a pipe for usage with select() or poll() * An API for running subprocesses with STDOUT and STDERR redirected to syslog. libdaemon 0.14 21.fc34 x86_64 32 k libdaemon-0.14-21.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library for writing UNIX daemons http LGPLv2+ libdaemon is a lightweight C library which eases the writing of UNIX daemons. It consists of the following parts * A wrapper around fork() which does the correct daemonization procedure of a process * A wrapper around syslog() for simpler and compatible log output to Syslog or STDERR * An API for writing PID files * An API for serializing UNIX signals into a pipe for usage with select() or poll() * An API for running subprocesses with STDOUT and STDERR redirected to syslog.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libdaemon
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libdaemon.
Install libdaemon 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 libdaemon
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libdaemon
Install libdaemon 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 libdaemon
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libdaemon
How To Uninstall libdaemon on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the libdaemon
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libdaemon
libdaemon Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/bc05ec764001682d179e3747d0a936d96697fe
/usr/lib64/libdaemon.so.0
/usr/lib64/libdaemon.so.0.5.0
/usr/share/doc/libdaemon
/usr/share/doc/libdaemon/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libdaemon/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/13632b57f1b60d6368d6446b5c9b900ff4400d
/usr/lib/libdaemon.so.0
/usr/lib/libdaemon.so.0.5.0
/usr/share/doc/libdaemon
/usr/share/doc/libdaemon/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libdaemon/README
References
- [libdaemon website](http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/ http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdaemon
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.