How To Install mcpp on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mcpp on Fedora 34.
What is mcpp
C/C++ preprocessor defines and expands macros and processes ‘#if’, ‘#include’ and some other directives. MCPP is an alternative C/C++ preprocessor with the highest conformance. It supports multiple standards MCPP is especially useful for debugging a source program which uses complicated macros and also useful for checking portability of a source. Though mcpp could be built as a replacement of GCC’s resident preprocessor or as a stand-alone program without using library build of mcpp, this package installs only a program named ‘mcpp’ which links shared library of mcpp and behaves independent from GCC.
We can use yum or dnf to install mcpp on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mcpp.
Install mcpp 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 mcpp using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mcpp
Install mcpp 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 mcpp using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mcpp
How To Uninstall mcpp on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the mcpp package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mcpp
mcpp Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/mcpp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/fa0f0164b43f2d6545a245e8657623f7e22951
/usr/share/doc/mcpp
/usr/share/doc/mcpp/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mcpp/ChangeLog.old
/usr/share/doc/mcpp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mcpp/README
/usr/share/man/man1/mcpp.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mcpp on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.