How To Install sip on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sip on Fedora 34.
What is sip
SIP is a tool for generating bindings for C++ classes so that they can be accessed as normal Python classes. SIP takes many of its ideas from SWIG but, because it is specifically designed for C++ and Python, is able to generate tighter bindings. SIP is so called because it is a small SWIG. SIP was originally designed to generate Python bindings for KDE and so has explicit support for the signal slot mechanism used by the Qt/KDE class libraries. However, SIP can be used to generate Python bindings for any C++ class library.
We can use yum or dnf to install sip on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sip.
Install sip 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 sip using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sip
Install sip 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 sip using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sip
How To Uninstall sip on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the sip package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sip
sip Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/python3-sip
/usr/bin/sip
/usr/bin/sip-pyqt4
/usr/bin/sip-pyqt5
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/2f73cfbba6ac424fe4556bf38d15086c755fe1
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.sip
/usr/share/doc/sip
/usr/share/doc/sip/README
/usr/share/licenses/sip
/usr/share/licenses/sip/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/sip/LICENSE-GPL2
/usr/share/licenses/sip/LICENSE-GPL3
/usr/share/sip
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sip on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.