How To Install c-ares on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install c-ares in Fedora 36. c-ares is A library that performs asynchronous DNS operations

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install c-ares on Fedora 36.

What is `c-ares`

c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named ‘ares’, written by Greg Hudson at MIT.

We can use yum or dnf to install c-ares on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install c-ares.

Install c-ares on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install c-ares using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install c-ares

Install c-ares on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install c-ares using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install c-ares

How To Uninstall c-ares on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the c-ares package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove c-ares

c-ares Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/11e20154793f03cbe163bbbda9ec879cd53488
/usr/lib64/libcares.so.2
/usr/lib64/libcares.so.2.4.3
/usr/share/doc/c-ares
/usr/share/doc/c-ares/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/c-ares/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/c-ares/README.cares
/usr/share/licenses/c-ares
/usr/share/licenses/c-ares/LICENSE

References

c-ares website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install c-ares on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).