How To Install slang on Fedora 34

slang is Shared library for the S-Lang extension language Shared library for the S-Lang extension language

Introduction

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

What is `slang`

S-Lang is an interpreted language and a programming library. The S-Lang language was designed so that it can be easily embedded into a program to provide the program with a powerful extension language. The S-Lang library, provided in this package, provides the S-Lang extension language. S-Lang’s syntax resembles C, which makes it easy to recode S-Lang procedures in C if you need to. slang 2.3.2 9.fc34 x86_64 379 k slang-2.3.2-9.fc34.src.rpm fedora Shared library for the S-Lang extension language https GPLv2+ S-Lang is an interpreted language and a programming library. The S-Lang language was designed so that it can be easily embedded into a program to provide the program with a powerful extension language. The S-Lang library, provided in this package, provides the S-Lang extension language. S-Lang’s syntax resembles C, which makes it easy to recode S-Lang procedures in C if you need to.

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

Install slang 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 slang using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install slang

Install slang 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 slang using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install slang

How To Uninstall slang on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove slang

slang Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/d53868eff5666628a3c719e987b039873c29e9
/usr/lib64/libslang.so.2
/usr/lib64/libslang.so.2.3.2
/usr/share/doc/slang
/usr/share/doc/slang/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/slang
/usr/share/licenses/slang/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/4123d7581498e340088f78310e30d386033158
/usr/lib/libslang.so.2
/usr/lib/libslang.so.2.3.2
/usr/share/doc/slang
/usr/share/doc/slang/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/slang
/usr/share/licenses/slang/COPYING

References

[slang website](https://www.jedsoft.org/slang/ https://www.jedsoft.org/slang/)

Summary

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