How To Install librpminspect on Fedora 34

librpminspect is Library providing RPM test API and functionality Library providing RPM test API and functionality

Introduction

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

What is `librpminspect`

The library providing the backend test functionality and API for the rpminspect frontend program. This library can also be used by other programs wanting to incorporate RPM test functionality. librpminspect 1.5 1.fc34 x86_64 303 k rpminspect-1.5-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Library providing RPM test API and functionality https GPLv3+ and LGPLv2+ and ASL 2.0 and CC-BY The library providing the backend test functionality and API for the rpminspect frontend program. This library can also be used by other programs wanting to incorporate RPM test functionality.

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

Install librpminspect 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 librpminspect using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install librpminspect

Install librpminspect 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 librpminspect using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install librpminspect

How To Uninstall librpminspect on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove librpminspect

librpminspect Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/586c269a869fa1634b15f5e8badb47569dba5f
/usr/lib64/librpminspect.so.0
/usr/lib64/librpminspect.so.0.5.0
/usr/share/licenses/librpminspect
/usr/share/licenses/librpminspect/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/librpminspect/LICENSE-2.0.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/5f3834d24255026ec54481f7939fd6c77d5166
/usr/lib64/librpminspect.so.0
/usr/lib64/librpminspect.so.0.5.0
/usr/share/licenses/librpminspect
/usr/share/licenses/librpminspect/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/librpminspect/LICENSE-2.0.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/ca7b258ce86226f4fb8f26896164eaf7daf33f
/usr/lib/librpminspect.so.0
/usr/lib/librpminspect.so.0.5.0
/usr/share/licenses/librpminspect
/usr/share/licenses/librpminspect/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/librpminspect/LICENSE-2.0.txt

References

[librpminspect website](https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect)

Summary

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