How To Install pixman on Fedora 34

pixman is Pixel manipulation library Pixel manipulation library

Introduction

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

What is pixman

Pixman is a pixel manipulation library for X and Cairo. pixman 0.40.0 3.fc34 x86_64 274 k pixman-0.40.0-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora Pixel manipulation library https MIT Pixman is a pixel manipulation library for X and Cairo.

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

Install pixman 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 pixman using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pixman

Install pixman 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 pixman using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pixman

How To Uninstall pixman on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pixman

pixman Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/ca8a0660c74bb0446423bf86ac0084832b0bed
/usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0
/usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0.40.0
/usr/share/doc/pixman
/usr/share/doc/pixman/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/c89a207ce1f60bdcf943b15ce34d93b0296f60
/usr/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpixman-1.so.0.40.0
/usr/share/doc/pixman
/usr/share/doc/pixman/COPYING

References

Summary

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