How To Install libsmbclient on Fedora 34

libsmbclient is The SMB client library The SMB client library

Introduction

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

What is libsmbclient

The libsmbclient contains the SMB client library from the Samba suite. libsmbclient 2 4.14.6 0.fc34 x86_64 75 k samba-4.14.6-0.fc34.src.rpm updates The SMB client library https GPLv3+ and LGPLv3+ The libsmbclient contains the SMB client library from the Samba suite.

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

Install libsmbclient 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 libsmbclient using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libsmbclient

Install libsmbclient 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 libsmbclient using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsmbclient

How To Uninstall libsmbclient on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libsmbclient

libsmbclient Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/22b85dfe783cc14e273ec1959f0ca4527f518d
/usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0
/usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0.7.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/91be392b0d84e948ddcda7658202bbf54f94a7
/usr/lib64/libsmbclient.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsmbclient.so.0.7.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/a0ea7db519b149a110a8fa1903f6c4aab05f6e
/usr/lib64/libsmbclient.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsmbclient.so.0.7.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/e959ee9d5d62caeb84c5dc3c9d555ae526a711
/usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0
/usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0.7.0

References

Summary

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