How To Install libldm on Fedora 34

libldm is A tool to manage Windows dynamic disks A tool to manage Windows dynamic disks

Introduction

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

What is `libldm`

libldm is a library for managing Microsoft Windows dynamic disks, which use Microsoft’s LDM metadata. It can inspect them, and also create and remove device-mapper block devices which can be mounted. It includes ldmtool, which exposes this functionality as a command-line tool. libldm is released under LGPLv3+. ldmtool is released under GPLv3+. libldm 0.2.4 8.fc34 x86_64 57 k libldm-0.2.4-8.fc34.src.rpm fedora A tool to manage Windows dynamic disks https LGPLv3+ and GPLv3+ libldm is a library for managing Microsoft Windows dynamic disks, which use Microsoft’s LDM metadata. It can inspect them, and also create and remove device-mapper block devices which can be mounted. It includes ldmtool, which exposes this functionality as a command-line tool. libldm is released under LGPLv3+. ldmtool is released under GPLv3+.

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

Install libldm 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 libldm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libldm

Install libldm 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 libldm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libldm

How To Uninstall libldm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libldm

libldm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ldmtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/cd597c0336905ebc65a397b2f1bba7a96949d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/62c085395fc342d392d395423d17c3eec59847
/usr/lib64/libldm-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib64/libldm-1.0.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libldm
/usr/share/doc/libldm/COPYING.gpl
/usr/share/doc/libldm/COPYING.lgpl
/usr/share/man/man1/ldmtool.1.gz
/usr/bin/ldmtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/0061a8a062258c7f07868eeff073bcd3ce63e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/5c9b190e931804a5ca82bf7ba43bc66f21af56
/usr/lib/libldm-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libldm-1.0.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libldm
/usr/share/doc/libldm/COPYING.gpl
/usr/share/doc/libldm/COPYING.lgpl
/usr/share/man/man1/ldmtool.1.gz

References

[libldm website](https://github.com/mdbooth/libldm https://github.com/mdbooth/libldm)

Summary

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