How To Install libseat on Fedora 34

libseat is Universal seat management library Universal seat management library

Introduction

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

What is `libseat`

A seat management library allowing applications to use whatever seat management is available. Supports * seatd * (e)logind * embedded seatd for standalone operation Each backend can be compile-time included and is runtime auto-detected or manually selected with the LIBSEAT_BACKEND environment variable. Which backend is in use is transparent to the application, providing a simple common interface. libseat 0.5.0 1.fc34 x86_64 20 k seatd-0.5.0-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Universal seat management library https MIT A seat management library allowing applications to use whatever seat management is available. Supports * seatd * (e)logind * embedded seatd for standalone operation Each backend can be compile-time included and is runtime auto-detected or manually selected with the LIBSEAT_BACKEND environment variable. Which backend is in use is transparent to the application, providing a simple common interface.

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

Install libseat 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 libseat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libseat

Install libseat 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 libseat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libseat

How To Uninstall libseat on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libseat

libseat Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/f927ea3a0a2f4355c87ff6462f94bc9b789b18
/usr/lib/libseat.so.1
/usr/share/doc/libseat
/usr/share/doc/libseat/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libseat
/usr/share/licenses/libseat/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/9669e810f43f9dd0afb238804fa0e783c6e7d1
/usr/lib64/libseat.so.1
/usr/share/doc/libseat
/usr/share/doc/libseat/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libseat
/usr/share/licenses/libseat/LICENSE

References

[libseat website](https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd/ https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd/)

Summary

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