How To Install libdb on Fedora 34

libdb is The Berkeley DB database library for C The Berkeley DB database library for C

Introduction

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

What is `libdb`

The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database recovery. The Berkeley DB supports C, C++, and Perl APIs. It is used by many applications, including Python and Perl, so this should be installed on all systems. libdb 5.3.28 46.fc34 i686 830 k libdb-5.3.28-46.fc34.src.rpm fedora The Berkeley DB database library for C http BSD and LGPLv2 and Sleepycat The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database recovery. The Berkeley DB supports C, C++, and Perl APIs. It is used by many applications, including Python and Perl, so this should be installed on all systems.

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

Install libdb 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 libdb using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libdb

Install libdb 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 libdb using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libdb

How To Uninstall libdb on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libdb

libdb Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/a3ba8b53610d2ac2fb5ca275694499383bedd4
/usr/lib64/libdb-5.3.so
/usr/lib64/libdb-5.so
/usr/share/doc/libdb
/usr/share/doc/libdb/README
/usr/share/licenses/libdb
/usr/share/licenses/libdb/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/libdb/lgpl-2.1.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/f290649f8bdfbe134599b3625db1983ed14660
/usr/lib/libdb-5.3.so
/usr/lib/libdb-5.so
/usr/share/doc/libdb
/usr/share/doc/libdb/README
/usr/share/licenses/libdb
/usr/share/licenses/libdb/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/libdb/lgpl-2.1.txt

References

[libdb website](http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/ http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/)

Summary

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