How To Install flintqs on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install flintqs in Fedora 36. flintqs is William Hart’s quadratic sieve

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flintqs on Fedora 36.

What is `flintqs`

This package contains William Hart’s quadratic sieve implementation, as modified for sagemath.

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

Install flintqs 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 flintqs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flintqs

Install flintqs 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 flintqs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flintqs

How To Uninstall flintqs on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove flintqs

flintqs Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/QuadraticSieve
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/cf0e5b41a6c6a59633e72675df9c4b03569d60
/usr/share/doc/flintqs
/usr/share/doc/flintqs/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/flintqs/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/flintqs/README
/usr/share/licenses/flintqs
/usr/share/licenses/flintqs/COPYING

References

flintqs website

Summary

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