How To Install libmanette on Fedora 34

libmanette is Game controller library Game controller library

Introduction

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

What is libmanette

libmanette is a small GObject library giving you simple access to game controllers. This library is intended for software needing a painless access to game controllers from any programming language and with little dependencies. It supports the de-facto standard gamepads as defined by the W3C standard Gamepad specification or as implemented by the SDL GameController. More game controller kinds could be supported in the future if needed. Mapping of the devices is handled transparently and internally by the library using the popular SDL mapping string format. libmanette 0.2.6 2.fc34 x86_64 50 k libmanette-0.2.6-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora Game controller library https LGPLv2+ libmanette is a small GObject library giving you simple access to game controllers. This library is intended for software needing a painless access to game controllers from any programming language and with little dependencies. It supports the de-facto standard gamepads as defined by the W3C standard Gamepad specification or as implemented by the SDL GameController. More game controller kinds could be supported in the future if needed. Mapping of the devices is handled transparently and internally by the library using the popular SDL mapping string format.

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

Install libmanette 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 libmanette using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmanette

Install libmanette 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 libmanette using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmanette

How To Uninstall libmanette on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libmanette

libmanette Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/3a94f5da895f8cc21784d3d3f9d65b2ecba9b1
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Manette-0.2.typelib
/usr/lib/libmanette-0.2.so.0
/usr/share/doc/libmanette
/usr/share/doc/libmanette/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libmanette/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libmanette
/usr/share/licenses/libmanette/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/509720fcefcdc28160ee215dc95903af403423
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Manette-0.2.typelib
/usr/lib64/libmanette-0.2.so.0
/usr/share/doc/libmanette
/usr/share/doc/libmanette/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libmanette/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libmanette
/usr/share/licenses/libmanette/COPYING

References

Summary

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