How To Install physfs on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is `physfs`

PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives. It is intended for use in video games, and the design was somewhat inspired by Quake 3’s file subsystem. The programmer defines a “write directory” on the physical filesystem. No file writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that write directory, for security. For example, an embedded scripting language cannot write outside of this path if it uses PhysFS for all of its I/O, which means that untrusted scripts can run more safely. Symbolic links can be disabled as well, for added safety. For file reading, the programmer lists directories and archives that form a “search path”. Once the search path is defined, it becomes a single, transparent hierarchical filesystem. This makes for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you access a file directly on the disk, and it makes it easy to ship a new archive that will override a previous archive on a per-file basis. Finally, PhysicsFS gives you platform-abstracted means to determine if CD-ROMs are available, the user’s home directory, where in the real filesystem your program is running, etc. physfs 3.0.2 7.fc34 x86_64 86 k physfs-3.0.2-7.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library to provide abstract access to various archives http zlib PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives. It is intended for use in video games, and the design was somewhat inspired by Quake 3’s file subsystem. The programmer defines a “write directory” on the physical filesystem. No file writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that write directory, for security. For example, an embedded scripting language cannot write outside of this path if it uses PhysFS for all of its I/O, which means that untrusted scripts can run more safely. Symbolic links can be disabled as well, for added safety. For file reading, the programmer lists directories and archives that form a “search path”. Once the search path is defined, it becomes a single, transparent hierarchical filesystem. This makes for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you access a file directly on the disk, and it makes it easy to ship a new archive that will override a previous archive on a per-file basis. Finally, PhysicsFS gives you platform-abstracted means to determine if CD-ROMs are available, the user’s home directory, where in the real filesystem your program is running, etc.

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

Install physfs 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 physfs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install physfs

Install physfs 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 physfs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install physfs

How To Uninstall physfs on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove physfs

physfs Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/d9c2f239496d204c26937e586e34be9f3fe1e7
/usr/lib/libphysfs.so.1
/usr/lib/libphysfs.so.3.0.2
/usr/share/doc/physfs
/usr/share/doc/physfs/CHANGELOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/physfs/CREDITS.txt
/usr/share/doc/physfs/TODO.txt
/usr/share/licenses/physfs
/usr/share/licenses/physfs/LICENSE.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/695791da7d1715f6fb926c605ae3ca2722ae12
/usr/lib64/libphysfs.so.1
/usr/lib64/libphysfs.so.3.0.2
/usr/share/doc/physfs
/usr/share/doc/physfs/CHANGELOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/physfs/CREDITS.txt
/usr/share/doc/physfs/TODO.txt
/usr/share/licenses/physfs
/usr/share/licenses/physfs/LICENSE.txt

References

[physfs website](http://www.icculus.org/physfs/ http://www.icculus.org/physfs/)

Summary

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