How To Install libjcat on Fedora 34

libjcat is Library for reading Jcat files Library for reading Jcat files

Introduction

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

What is `libjcat`

This library allows reading and writing gzip-compressed JSON catalog files, which can be used to store GPG, PKCS-7 and SHA-256 checksums for each file. This provides equivalent functionality to the catalog files supported in Microsoft Windows. libjcat 0.1.6 1.fc34 x86_64 71 k libjcat-0.1.6-1.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library for reading Jcat files https LGPLv2+ This library allows reading and writing gzip-compressed JSON catalog files, which can be used to store GPG, PKCS-7 and SHA-256 checksums for each file. This provides equivalent functionality to the catalog files supported in Microsoft Windows.

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

Install libjcat 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 libjcat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libjcat

Install libjcat 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 libjcat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libjcat

How To Uninstall libjcat on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libjcat

libjcat Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/jcat-tool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/a7500cb5854a6f8bcce5f1ee80673b6bf65d83
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/aa8b0abba99794a7c4bc9afbd319892039f329
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Jcat-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libjcat.so.1
/usr/lib/libjcat.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libjcat
/usr/share/doc/libjcat/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libjcat
/usr/share/licenses/libjcat/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/jcat-tool.1.gz
/usr/bin/jcat-tool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/3e326a6f7beb3710b65644f6a4518b8aa8ec7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/52de17183f2814459b3bb4cfe2b00ec4ea9b92
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Jcat-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libjcat.so.1
/usr/lib64/libjcat.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libjcat
/usr/share/doc/libjcat/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libjcat
/usr/share/licenses/libjcat/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/jcat-tool.1.gz

References

[libjcat website](https://github.com/hughsie/libjcat https://github.com/hughsie/libjcat)

Summary

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