How To Install libformula on Fedora 34

libformula is Formula Parser

Introduction

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

What is libformula

LibFormula provides Excel-Style-Expressions. The implementation provided here is very generic and can be used in any application that needs to compute formulas.

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

Install libformula 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 libformula using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libformula

Install libformula 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 libformula using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libformula

How To Uninstall libformula on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libformula

libformula Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/doc/libformula
/usr/share/doc/libformula/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/doc/libformula/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/libformula/licence-LGPL.txt
/usr/share/java/libformula.jar

References

Summary

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