How To Install pgdbf on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pgdbf on Fedora 34.
What is pgdbf
PgDBF is a program for converting XBase databases - particularly FoxPro tables with memo files - into a format that PostgreSQL can directly import. It’s a compact C project with no dependencies other than standard Unix libraries. While the project is relatively tiny and simple, it’s also heavily optimized via profiling - routine benchmark were many times faster than with other Open Source programs. In fact, even on slower systems, conversions are typically limited by hard drive speed.
We can use yum or dnf to install pgdbf on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pgdbf.
Install pgdbf 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 pgdbf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pgdbf
Install pgdbf 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 pgdbf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pgdbf
How To Uninstall pgdbf on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pgdbf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pgdbf
pgdbf Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/pgdbf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/40c65ca3cce248ae0d41f6014f99a376189ad2
/usr/share/doc/pgdbf
/usr/share/doc/pgdbf/README
/usr/share/licenses/pgdbf
/usr/share/licenses/pgdbf/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/pgdbf.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pgdbf on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
