How To Install libgudev on Fedora 34

libgudev is GObject-based wrapper library for libudev GObject-based wrapper library for libudev

Introduction

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

What is `libgudev`

This library makes it much simpler to use libudev from programs already using GObject. It also makes it possible to easily use libudev from other programming languages, such as Javascript, because of GObject introspection support. libgudev 236 1.fc34 x86_64 35 k libgudev-236-1.fc34.src.rpm fedora GObject-based wrapper library for libudev https LGPLv2+ This library makes it much simpler to use libudev from programs already using GObject. It also makes it possible to easily use libudev from other programming languages, such as Javascript, because of GObject introspection support.

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

Install libgudev 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 libgudev using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libgudev

Install libgudev 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 libgudev using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libgudev

How To Uninstall libgudev on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libgudev

libgudev Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/4b592bc7d6edcd16d8aeab3a7929174104c55e
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GUdev-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgudev-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgudev-1.0.so.0.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libgudev
/usr/share/doc/libgudev/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/libgudev
/usr/share/licenses/libgudev/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/662dd20eb2deae1f7740f59c3f18ce61777b36
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/GUdev-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgudev-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgudev-1.0.so.0.3.0
/usr/share/doc/libgudev
/usr/share/doc/libgudev/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/libgudev
/usr/share/licenses/libgudev/COPYING

References

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

Summary

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