How To Install libwebp on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebp
on Fedora 34.
What is libwebp
WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital images more efficiently. libwebp 1.2.0 1.fc34 x86_64 280 k libwebp-1.2.0-1.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library and tools for the WebP graphics format http BSD WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital images more efficiently.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libwebp
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libwebp.
Install libwebp 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 libwebp
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libwebp
Install libwebp 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 libwebp
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libwebp
How To Uninstall libwebp on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the libwebp
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libwebp
libwebp Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/eddedfb74ed1d7e8269df97abe2d086b44cfdb
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/c2a0f5e00445c84f4aee126bcb634006230975
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/d2627803c79eaf56d327ed4f9c390bdfa36c0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/450777c2c80587eebd9f194af7dd1c6937e2ae
/usr/lib64/libwebp.so.7
/usr/lib64/libwebp.so.7.1.1
/usr/lib64/libwebpdecoder.so.3
/usr/lib64/libwebpdecoder.so.3.1.1
/usr/lib64/libwebpdemux.so.2
/usr/lib64/libwebpdemux.so.2.0.7
/usr/lib64/libwebpmux.so.3
/usr/lib64/libwebpmux.so.3.0.6
/usr/share/doc/libwebp
/usr/share/doc/libwebp/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libwebp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libwebp/PATENTS
/usr/share/doc/libwebp/README
/usr/share/licenses/libwebp
/usr/share/licenses/libwebp/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/951a18ff37a684ba7e8a9b33765449bb9f625c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/fb569aa735a097d506827161a1f80d01cb2539
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/88aab5d6092caa75813e3e6dbf906a0f9fa696
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/ec8e1db3c7151d4cdf2f619764099f1f4f0aee
/usr/lib/libwebp.so.7
/usr/lib/libwebp.so.7.1.1
/usr/lib/libwebpdecoder.so.3
/usr/lib/libwebpdecoder.so.3.1.1
/usr/lib/libwebpdemux.so.2
/usr/lib/libwebpdemux.so.2.0.7
/usr/lib/libwebpmux.so.3
/usr/lib/libwebpmux.so.3.0.6
/usr/share/doc/libwebp
/usr/share/doc/libwebp/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libwebp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libwebp/PATENTS
/usr/share/doc/libwebp/README
/usr/share/licenses/libwebp
/usr/share/licenses/libwebp/COPYING
References
- [libwebp website](http://webmproject.org/ http://webmproject.org/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebp
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.