How To Install libev on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is libev

Libev is modeled (very loosely) after libevent and the Event Perl module, but is faster, scales better and is more correct, and also more featureful. And also smaller. libev 4.33 3.fc34 x86_64 54 k libev-4.33-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora High-performance event loop/event model with lots of features http BSD or GPLv2+ Libev is modeled (very loosely) after libevent and the Event Perl module, but is faster, scales better and is more correct, and also more featureful. And also smaller.

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

Install libev 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 libev using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libev

Install libev 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 libev using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libev

How To Uninstall libev on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libev

libev Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/d2e5b20acf23a668343b048d8320de8057b5f1
/usr/lib/libev.so.4
/usr/lib/libev.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libev
/usr/share/doc/libev/Changes
/usr/share/doc/libev/README
/usr/share/licenses/libev
/usr/share/licenses/libev/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/5c55266f3c8e58d54dff4e4ad15e6976733d7b
/usr/lib64/libev.so.4
/usr/lib64/libev.so.4.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libev
/usr/share/doc/libev/Changes
/usr/share/doc/libev/README
/usr/share/licenses/libev
/usr/share/licenses/libev/LICENSE

References

Summary

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