How To Install libhomfly on Fedora 34

libhomfly is Library to compute the homfly polynomial of a link Library to compute the homfly polynomial of a link

Introduction

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

What is `libhomfly`

This is a conversion of the program written by Robert J Jenkins Jr into a shared library. It accepts as entry a character string, formatted in the same way as the input files that the original code used (see the documentation). The returned value is the string that the original program would print on screen. libhomfly 1.02r6 6.fc34 x86_64 23 k libhomfly-1.02r6-6.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library to compute the homfly polynomial of a link https Unlicense This is a conversion of the program written by Robert J Jenkins Jr into a shared library. It accepts as entry a character string, formatted in the same way as the input files that the original code used (see the documentation). The returned value is the string that the original program would print on screen.

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

Install libhomfly 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 libhomfly using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libhomfly

Install libhomfly 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 libhomfly using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libhomfly

How To Uninstall libhomfly on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libhomfly

libhomfly Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/200fd4df75bad543e0968a63c5c535adebfa92
/usr/lib/libhomfly.so.0
/usr/lib/libhomfly.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libhomfly
/usr/share/doc/libhomfly/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libhomfly
/usr/share/licenses/libhomfly/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/83421ca96e75d2f04c9f0384aa20151285e78f
/usr/lib64/libhomfly.so.0
/usr/lib64/libhomfly.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libhomfly
/usr/share/doc/libhomfly/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libhomfly
/usr/share/licenses/libhomfly/LICENSE

References

[libhomfly website](https://github.com/miguelmarco/libhomfly https://github.com/miguelmarco/libhomfly)

Summary

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