How To Install librados2 on Fedora 34

librados2 is RADOS distributed object store client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librados2 on Fedora 34.

What is librados2

RADOS is a reliable, autonomic distributed object storage cluster developed as part of the Ceph distributed storage system. This is a shared library allowing applications to access the distributed object store using a simple file-like interface.

We can use yum or dnf to install librados2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install librados2.

Install librados2 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 librados2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install librados2

Install librados2 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 librados2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install librados2

How To Uninstall librados2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the librados2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove librados2

librados2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/ceph
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/90618af216a1b2cf6fb0ce93292a0c0a1f3249
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/1a4ada66ae121c37db1fa7869957490ebde839
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/f7c7e7e77745fd2aaf4d8c70d471801b34dfcb
/usr/lib64/ceph
/usr/lib64/ceph/libceph-common.so.2
/usr/lib64/librados.so.2
/usr/lib64/librados.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib64/librados_tp.so.2
/usr/lib64/librados_tp.so.2.0.0
/etc/ceph
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/0295ecb09266ba471eeb93b607279177f05b03
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/1a71de6fb867ea2d44bd60b612f16559c8d763
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/ecde364e5d122eb0f2b98960ac0f1c1cd01e03
/usr/lib64/ceph
/usr/lib64/ceph/libceph-common.so.2
/usr/lib64/librados.so.2
/usr/lib64/librados.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib64/librados_tp.so.2
/usr/lib64/librados_tp.so.2.0.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librados2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.