How To Install liboauth on Fedora 34

liboauth is OAuth library functions OAuth library functions

Introduction

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

What is `liboauth`

liboauth is a collection of POSIX-c functions implementing the OAuth Core RFC 5849 standard. liboauth provides functions to escape and encode parameters according to OAuth specification and offers high-level functionality to sign requests or verify OAuth signatures as well as perform HTTP requests. liboauth 1.0.3 16.fc34 x86_64 28 k liboauth-1.0.3-16.fc34.src.rpm fedora OAuth library functions http MIT liboauth is a collection of POSIX-c functions implementing the OAuth Core RFC 5849 standard. liboauth provides functions to escape and encode parameters according to OAuth specification and offers high-level functionality to sign requests or verify OAuth signatures as well as perform HTTP requests.

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

Install liboauth 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 liboauth using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liboauth

Install liboauth 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 liboauth using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liboauth

How To Uninstall liboauth on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove liboauth

liboauth Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/b36fb5fa6c08ca0b8e3742fbdd69eed82e9f6d
/usr/lib64/liboauth.so.0
/usr/lib64/liboauth.so.0.8.7
/usr/share/doc/liboauth
/usr/share/doc/liboauth/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/liboauth/COPYING.MIT
/usr/share/doc/liboauth/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/91877e819228b269f6a2e563aa3bbad081ee44
/usr/lib/liboauth.so.0
/usr/lib/liboauth.so.0.8.7
/usr/share/doc/liboauth
/usr/share/doc/liboauth/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/liboauth/COPYING.MIT
/usr/share/doc/liboauth/README

References

[liboauth website](http://liboauth.sourceforge.net/ http://liboauth.sourceforge.net/)

Summary

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