How To Install slibtool on Fedora 34

slibtool is A skinny libtool implementation, written in C

Introduction

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

What is slibtool

‘slibtool’ is an independent reimplementation of the widely used libtool, written in C. ‘slibtool’ is designed to be a clean, fast, easy-to-use libtool drop-in replacement, and is accordingly aimed at package authors, distro developers, and system integrators. ‘slibtool’ maintains compatibility with libtool in nearly every aspect of the tool’s functionality as well as semantics, leaving out (or turning into a no-op) only a small number of features that are no longer needed on modern systems. Being a compiled binary, and although not primarily written for the sake of performance, building a package with ‘slibtool’ is often faster than with its script-based counterpart. The resulting performance gain would normally vary between packages, and is most noticeable in builds that invoke libtool a large number of times, and which are characterized by the short compilation duration of individual translation units.

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

Install slibtool 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 slibtool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install slibtool

Install slibtool 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 slibtool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install slibtool

How To Uninstall slibtool on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove slibtool

slibtool Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/clibtool
/usr/bin/clibtool-shared
/usr/bin/clibtool-static
/usr/bin/dlibtool
/usr/bin/dlibtool-shared
/usr/bin/dlibtool-static
/usr/bin/rclibtool
/usr/bin/rdclibtool
/usr/bin/rdlibtool
/usr/bin/rlibtool
/usr/bin/slibtool
/usr/bin/slibtool-shared
/usr/bin/slibtool-static
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/8a1c317cf6bfff16149048223414501c6ec705
/usr/share/doc/slibtool
/usr/share/doc/slibtool/CONTRIB
/usr/share/doc/slibtool/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/slibtool/README
/usr/share/doc/slibtool/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/slibtool
/usr/share/licenses/slibtool/COPYING.SLIBTOOL

References

Summary

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