How To Install sympol on Fedora 34

sympol is Symmetric polyhedra tool

Introduction

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

What is sympol

SymPol is a C++ tool to work with symmetric polyhedra. It helps to compute restricted automorphisms (parts of the linear symmetry group) of polyhedra and performs polyhedral description conversion up to a given or computed symmetry group.

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

Install sympol 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 sympol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sympol

Install sympol 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 sympol using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sympol

How To Uninstall sympol on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sympol

sympol Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/sympol
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/9525c41fcb31f6cb1f8f37ba02c86ddb196a9d
/usr/share/doc/sympol
/usr/share/doc/sympol/sympol-manual-0.1.pdf
/usr/share/man/man1/sympol.1.gz

References

Summary

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