How To Install libsmbios on Fedora 34

libsmbios is Libsmbios C/C++ shared libraries Libsmbios C/C++ shared libraries

Introduction

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

What is libsmbios

Libsmbios is a library and utilities that can be used by client programs to get information from standard BIOS tables, such as the SMBIOS table. This package provides the C-based libsmbios library, with a C interface. libsmbios 2.4.3 2.fc34 x86_64 97 k libsmbios-2.4.3-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora Libsmbios C/C++ shared libraries https GPLv2+ or OSL 2.1 Libsmbios is a library and utilities that can be used by client programs to get information from standard BIOS tables, such as the SMBIOS table. This package provides the C-based libsmbios library, with a C interface.

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

Install libsmbios 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 libsmbios using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libsmbios

Install libsmbios 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 libsmbios using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsmbios

How To Uninstall libsmbios on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libsmbios

libsmbios Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/b66d6be47712af885211e9917a51465da49c02
/usr/lib64/libsmbios_c.so.2
/usr/lib64/libsmbios_c.so.2.2.1
/usr/share/licenses/libsmbios
/usr/share/licenses/libsmbios/COPYING-GPL
/usr/share/licenses/libsmbios/COPYING-OSL
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/44f5bf4952522057c9492fb5b6f2ce94124572
/usr/lib/libsmbios_c.so.2
/usr/lib/libsmbios_c.so.2.2.1
/usr/share/licenses/libsmbios
/usr/share/licenses/libsmbios/COPYING-GPL
/usr/share/licenses/libsmbios/COPYING-OSL
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libsmbios-2.4.mo

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Summary

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