How To Install libimobiledevice on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is libimobiledevice

libimobiledevice is a library for connecting to mobile devices including phones and music players libimobiledevice 1.3.0 3.fc34 x86_64 78 k libimobiledevice-1.3.0-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library for connecting to mobile devices http LGPLv2+ libimobiledevice is a library for connecting to mobile devices including phones and music players

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

Install libimobiledevice 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 libimobiledevice using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libimobiledevice

Install libimobiledevice 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 libimobiledevice using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libimobiledevice

How To Uninstall libimobiledevice on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libimobiledevice

libimobiledevice Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/b67455a475174afe920f276070557fa63414e2
/usr/lib/libimobiledevice-1.0.so.6
/usr/lib/libimobiledevice-1.0.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libimobiledevice
/usr/share/licenses/libimobiledevice/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/99b3ed2be76b52501d7ea7e244f2a76f942edb
/usr/lib64/libimobiledevice-1.0.so.6
/usr/lib64/libimobiledevice-1.0.so.6.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libimobiledevice/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libimobiledevice
/usr/share/licenses/libimobiledevice/COPYING.LESSER

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Summary

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