How To Install libwebsockets on Fedora 34

libwebsockets is Lightweight C library for Websockets Lightweight C library for Websockets

Introduction

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

What is libwebsockets

This is the libwebsockets C library for lightweight websocket clients and servers. libwebsockets 4.1.6 2.fc34 x86_64 259 k libwebsockets-4.1.6-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora Lightweight C library for Websockets http LGPLv2 and Public Domain and BSD and MIT and zlib This is the libwebsockets C library for lightweight websocket clients and servers.

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

Install libwebsockets 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 libwebsockets using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libwebsockets

Install libwebsockets 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 libwebsockets using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libwebsockets

How To Uninstall libwebsockets on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libwebsockets

libwebsockets Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/60050cc0e81bfd807a1b47b2c920ccc1027eb4
/usr/lib64/libwebsockets.so.17
/usr/share/doc/libwebsockets
/usr/share/doc/libwebsockets/README.md
/usr/share/doc/libwebsockets/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/libwebsockets
/usr/share/licenses/libwebsockets/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/60a34fda99bf17632bcbc4fc006ddd92ae027e
/usr/lib/libwebsockets.so.17
/usr/share/doc/libwebsockets
/usr/share/doc/libwebsockets/README.md
/usr/share/doc/libwebsockets/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/libwebsockets
/usr/share/licenses/libwebsockets/LICENSE

References

Summary

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