How To Install wimlib on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wimlib
on Fedora 34.
What is wimlib
wimlib is a C library for creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM files). wimlib and its command-line frontend ‘wimlib-imagex’ provide a free and cross-platform alternative to Microsoft’s WIMGAPI, ImageX, and DISM. wimlib 1.13.4 1.fc34 x86_64 221 k wimlib-1.13.4-1.fc34.src.rpm updates Open source Windows Imaging (WIM) library https GPLv3+ and CC0 wimlib is a C library for creating, modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM files). wimlib and its command-line frontend ‘wimlib-imagex’ provide a free and cross-platform alternative to Microsoft’s WIMGAPI, ImageX, and DISM.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install wimlib
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wimlib.
Install wimlib 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 wimlib
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wimlib
Install wimlib 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 wimlib
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wimlib
How To Uninstall wimlib on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the wimlib
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wimlib
wimlib Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/1ab294ee94720f37981919d03303cba19daac3
/usr/lib/libwim.so.15
/usr/lib/libwim.so.15.19.0
/usr/share/doc/wimlib
/usr/share/doc/wimlib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/wimlib/README
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING.CC0
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING.GPLv3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/75cf9bd104e2131d61333aef9e828e0e50655c
/usr/lib/libwim.so.15
/usr/lib/libwim.so.15.18.0
/usr/share/doc/wimlib
/usr/share/doc/wimlib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/wimlib/README
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING.CC0
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING.GPLv3
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING.LGPLv3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/bf977784fb1e98afb4587ceaba6aece6c450ff
/usr/lib64/libwim.so.15
/usr/lib64/libwim.so.15.18.0
/usr/share/doc/wimlib
/usr/share/doc/wimlib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/wimlib/README
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING.CC0
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING.GPLv3
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING.LGPLv3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/894e7b733a674fc9ef590cf66da37834a4fc76
/usr/lib64/libwim.so.15
/usr/lib64/libwim.so.15.19.0
/usr/share/doc/wimlib
/usr/share/doc/wimlib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/wimlib/README
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING.CC0
/usr/share/licenses/wimlib/COPYING.GPLv3
References
- [wimlib website](https://wimlib.net/ https://wimlib.net/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wimlib
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.