How To Install primesieve on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install primesieve
on Fedora 34.
What is primesieve
primesieve is a program that generates primes using a highly optimized sieve of Eratosthenes implementation. primesieve can generate primes and prime k-tuplets up to 2^64.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install primesieve
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install primesieve.
Install primesieve 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 primesieve
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install primesieve
Install primesieve 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 primesieve
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install primesieve
How To Uninstall primesieve on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the primesieve
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove primesieve
primesieve Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/primesieve
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/77066d0e373474f2d3f697401a6a72502b6b48
/usr/share/doc/primesieve
/usr/share/doc/primesieve/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/primesieve/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/primesieve.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install primesieve
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.