How To Install libtevent on Fedora 34

libtevent is The tevent library The tevent library

Introduction

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

What is `libtevent`

Tevent is an event system based on the talloc memory management library. Tevent has support for many event types, including timers, signals, and the classic file descriptor events. Tevent also provide helpers to deal with asynchronous code providing the tevent_req (Tevent Request) functions. libtevent 0.11.0 0.fc34 x86_64 43 k libtevent-0.11.0-0.fc34.src.rpm updates The tevent library http LGPLv3+ Tevent is an event system based on the talloc memory management library. Tevent has support for many event types, including timers, signals, and the classic file descriptor events. Tevent also provide helpers to deal with asynchronous code providing the tevent_req (Tevent Request) functions.

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

Install libtevent 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 libtevent using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libtevent

Install libtevent 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 libtevent using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libtevent

How To Uninstall libtevent on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libtevent

libtevent Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/ff2cd1d518e0a8af6691af8a8ffe5408506a49
/usr/lib64/libtevent.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtevent.so.0.11.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/5630314c814b05966445f8d7c2e9d5b9185077
/usr/lib/libtevent.so.0
/usr/lib/libtevent.so.0.10.2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/42b758f5c737e2ecfd18f36cbdfaeac0b5a6be
/usr/lib/libtevent.so.0
/usr/lib/libtevent.so.0.11.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/8686c1ef01bb0900194a347f743cf57dbec724
/usr/lib64/libtevent.so.0
/usr/lib64/libtevent.so.0.10.2

References

[libtevent website](http://tevent.samba.org/ http://tevent.samba.org/)

Summary

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