How To Install libedit on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libedit
on Fedora 34.
What is libedit
Libedit is an autotool- and libtoolized port of the NetBSD Editline library. It provides generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions, similar to those found in GNU Readline. libedit 3.1 38.20210714cvs.fc34 x86_64 104 k libedit-3.1-38.20210714cvs.fc34.src.rpm updates The NetBSD Editline library https BSD Libedit is an autotool- and libtoolized port of the NetBSD Editline library. It provides generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions, similar to those found in GNU Readline.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libedit
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libedit.
Install libedit 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 libedit
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libedit
Install libedit 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 libedit
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libedit
How To Uninstall libedit on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the libedit
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libedit
libedit Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/113774184e4bdfe8b1b09bd27aa9df200bb405
/usr/lib/libedit.so.0
/usr/lib/libedit.so.0.0.67
/usr/share/doc/libedit
/usr/share/doc/libedit/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libedit/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/libedit
/usr/share/licenses/libedit/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/editrc.5.gz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/08151a4febed67b6abf61c888437b99b4892cd
/usr/lib64/libedit.so.0
/usr/lib64/libedit.so.0.0.64
/usr/share/doc/libedit
/usr/share/doc/libedit/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libedit/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/libedit
/usr/share/licenses/libedit/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/editrc.5.gz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/0a24bba674d630300e5cf69f0ef9d7cbce2ec7
/usr/lib/libedit.so.0
/usr/lib/libedit.so.0.0.64
/usr/share/doc/libedit
/usr/share/doc/libedit/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libedit/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/libedit
/usr/share/licenses/libedit/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/editrc.5.gz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/29111eca52670c6c81e8a1578aeadd59361121
/usr/lib64/libedit.so.0
/usr/lib64/libedit.so.0.0.67
/usr/share/doc/libedit
/usr/share/doc/libedit/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libedit/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/libedit
/usr/share/licenses/libedit/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/editrc.5.gz
References
- [libedit website](https://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/ https://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libedit
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.