How To Install libmicrohttpd on Fedora 34

libmicrohttpd is Lightweight library for embedding a webserver in applications Lightweight library for embedding a webserver in applications

Introduction

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

What is `libmicrohttpd`

GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that is supposed to make it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application. Key features that distinguish libmicrohttpd from other projects are * C library * API is simple, expressive and fully reentrant * Implementation is http 1.1 compliant * HTTP server can listen on multiple ports * Support for IPv6 * Support for incremental processing of POST data * Creates binary of only 25k (for now) * Three different threading models libmicrohttpd 1 0.9.73 1.fc34 x86_64 90 k libmicrohttpd-0.9.73-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Lightweight library for embedding a webserver in applications http LGPLv2+ GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that is supposed to make it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application. Key features that distinguish libmicrohttpd from other projects are * C library * API is simple, expressive and fully reentrant * Implementation is http 1.1 compliant * HTTP server can listen on multiple ports * Support for IPv6 * Support for incremental processing of POST data * Creates binary of only 25k (for now) * Three different threading models

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

Install libmicrohttpd 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 libmicrohttpd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmicrohttpd

Install libmicrohttpd 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 libmicrohttpd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmicrohttpd

How To Uninstall libmicrohttpd on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libmicrohttpd

libmicrohttpd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/36d01cef98a31be5357106c251027086987ab6
/usr/lib64/libmicrohttpd.so.12
/usr/lib64/libmicrohttpd.so.12.57.0
/usr/share/doc/libmicrohttpd
/usr/share/doc/libmicrohttpd/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmicrohttpd
/usr/share/licenses/libmicrohttpd/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/cd18bd799a99766509b76e6b1c35ace7a42e77
/usr/lib/libmicrohttpd.so.12
/usr/lib/libmicrohttpd.so.12.57.0
/usr/share/doc/libmicrohttpd
/usr/share/doc/libmicrohttpd/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmicrohttpd
/usr/share/licenses/libmicrohttpd/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/ac06de10f6bbf96c7ab493bd6f3e48c4a0cb72
/usr/lib64/libmicrohttpd.so.12
/usr/lib64/libmicrohttpd.so.12.58.0
/usr/share/doc/libmicrohttpd
/usr/share/doc/libmicrohttpd/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmicrohttpd
/usr/share/licenses/libmicrohttpd/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/eb8ecf3f2bb82fe7e5935240b800bdaf452d6d
/usr/lib/libmicrohttpd.so.12
/usr/lib/libmicrohttpd.so.12.58.0
/usr/share/doc/libmicrohttpd
/usr/share/doc/libmicrohttpd/README
/usr/share/licenses/libmicrohttpd
/usr/share/licenses/libmicrohttpd/COPYING

References

[libmicrohttpd website](http://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/ http://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/)

Summary

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