How To Install libdfp on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdfp on Fedora 34.
What is libdfp
The “Decimal Floating Point C Library” is an implementation of ISO/IEC Technical report “ISO/IEC TR 24732” which describes the C-Language library routines necessary to provide the C library runtime support for decimal floating point data types introduced in IEEE 754-2008, namely _Decimal32, _Decimal64, and _Decimal128.
We can use yum or dnf to install libdfp on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libdfp.
Install libdfp 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 libdfp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libdfp
Install libdfp 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 libdfp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libdfp
How To Uninstall libdfp on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the libdfp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libdfp
libdfp Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/dbc46921ea36589d78e88fc638d6b4fa52d542
/usr/lib64/libdfp-1.0.15.so
/usr/lib64/libdfp.so.1
/usr/share/doc/dfp/COPYING.RUNTIME
/usr/share/doc/dfp/COPYING.libdecnumber.txt
/usr/share/doc/dfp/COPYING.libdfp.txt
/usr/share/doc/dfp/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/doc/dfp/COPYING3
/usr/share/doc/dfp/ChangeLog.md
/usr/share/doc/dfp/README
/usr/share/licenses/libdfp
/usr/share/licenses/libdfp/COPYING.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdfp on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.