How To Install libEMF on Fedora 34

libEMF is A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles

Introduction

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

What is libEMF

libEMF is a library for generating Enhanced Metafiles on systems which don’t natively support the ECMA-234 Graphics Device Interface (GDI). The library is intended to be used as a driver for other graphics programs such as Grace or gnuplot. Therefore, it implements a very limited subset of the GDI. libEMF 1.0.13 3.fc34 x86_64 94 k libEMF-1.0.13-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora A library for generating Enhanced Metafiles http LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+ libEMF is a library for generating Enhanced Metafiles on systems which don’t natively support the ECMA-234 Graphics Device Interface (GDI). The library is intended to be used as a driver for other graphics programs such as Grace or gnuplot. Therefore, it implements a very limited subset of the GDI.

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

Install libEMF 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 libEMF using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libEMF

Install libEMF 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 libEMF using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libEMF

How To Uninstall libEMF on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libEMF

libEMF Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/printemf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/4d56383923a7585ec1413d8852b5db319d04b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/24ed27a17e46df87c565020b5947618c088c6f
/usr/lib/libEMF.so.1
/usr/lib/libEMF.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libEMF
/usr/share/doc/libEMF/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libEMF/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libEMF/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libEMF/README
/usr/share/licenses/libEMF
/usr/share/licenses/libEMF/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libEMF/COPYING.LIB
/usr/bin/printemf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/50c42610113ce64a9efc82d26fa90e42f3369b
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/2bedf2a2c5406ae0185a8c677aeb4ad160f0df
/usr/lib64/libEMF.so.1
/usr/lib64/libEMF.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libEMF
/usr/share/doc/libEMF/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libEMF/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libEMF/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libEMF/README
/usr/share/licenses/libEMF
/usr/share/licenses/libEMF/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libEMF/COPYING.LIB

References

Summary

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