How To Install liblove on Fedora 34

liblove is Library for Love, A free 2D game engine

Introduction

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

What is liblove

This package includes the library files for LOVE. LOVE is an open source, cross platform 2D game engine which uses the Lua scripting language. LOVE can be used to make games of any license allowing it to be used for both free and non-free projects.

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

Install liblove 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 liblove using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liblove

Install liblove 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 liblove using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liblove

How To Uninstall liblove on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove liblove

liblove Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/2fe9a4ef12976ab95fc7f5abafe5e55494c821
/usr/lib64/liblove-11.3.so
/usr/lib64/liblove.so
/usr/share/doc/liblove
/usr/share/doc/liblove/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/liblove/readme.md
/usr/share/licenses/liblove
/usr/share/licenses/liblove/license.txt

References

Summary

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