How To Install dietlibc on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dietlibc on Fedora 36.
What is dietlibc
The diet libc is a libc that is optimized for small size. It can be used to create small statically linked binaries for Linux on alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, i386, mips, s390, sparc, sparc64, ppc and x86_64.
We can use yum or dnf to install dietlibc on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dietlibc.
Install dietlibc 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 dietlibc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dietlibc
Install dietlibc 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 dietlibc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dietlibc
How To Uninstall dietlibc on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the dietlibc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dietlibc
dietlibc Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/diet
/usr/bin/elftrunc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/5d230ba41c766fc3ca288aa9970e1ec57e4dc0
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/812be9435c802f19eb55511736509ccbc9b0cc
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/AUTHOR
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/CAVEAT
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/PORTING
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/README
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/README.clang
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/README.security
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/SECURITY
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/dietlibc/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/diet.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dietlibc on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).