How To Install libpmemobj on Fedora 34

libpmemobj is Persistent Memory Transactional Object Store library

Introduction

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

What is libpmemobj

The libpmemobj library provides a transactional object store, providing memory allocation, transactions, and general facilities for persistent memory programming.

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

Install libpmemobj 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 libpmemobj using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libpmemobj

Install libpmemobj 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 libpmemobj using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpmemobj

How To Uninstall libpmemobj on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libpmemobj

libpmemobj Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/cd2bb220d2440534c379fcc338658c9558494e
/usr/lib64/libpmemobj.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpmemobj.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemobj
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemobj/LICENSE

References

Summary

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