How To Install libgdata on Fedora 34

libgdata is Library for the GData protocol Library for the GData protocol

Introduction

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

What is `libgdata`

libgdata is a GLib-based library for accessing online service APIs using the GData protocol — most notably, Google’s services. It provides APIs to access the common Google services, and has full asynchronous support. libgdata 0.18.1 1.fc34 x86_64 476 k libgdata-0.18.1-1.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library for the GData protocol https LGPLv2+ libgdata is a GLib-based library for accessing online service APIs using the GData protocol — most notably, Google’s services. It provides APIs to access the common Google services, and has full asynchronous support.

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

Install libgdata 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 libgdata using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libgdata

Install libgdata 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 libgdata using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgdata

How To Uninstall libgdata on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libgdata

libgdata Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/85c7b13a7b2a632427ff1e1c2b594fc841629d
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/GData-0.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgdata.so.22
/usr/lib64/libgdata.so.22.6.0
/usr/share/doc/libgdata
/usr/share/doc/libgdata/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgdata/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libgdata/README
/usr/share/licenses/libgdata
/usr/share/licenses/libgdata/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/8268c84cfba30c2bbdec1d6a9bf0b61a077191
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GData-0.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgdata.so.22
/usr/lib/libgdata.so.22.6.0
/usr/share/doc/libgdata
/usr/share/doc/libgdata/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libgdata/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libgdata/README
/usr/share/licenses/libgdata
/usr/share/licenses/libgdata/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gdata.mo

References

[libgdata website](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/libgdata https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/libgdata)

Summary

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