How To Install libjcat on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install libjcat in Fedora 36. libjcat is Library for reading Jcat files

Introduction

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

What is `libjcat`

This library allows reading and writing gzip-compressed JSON catalog files, which can be used to store GPG, PKCS-7 and SHA-256 checksums for each file. This provides equivalent functionality to the catalog files supported in Microsoft Windows.

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

Install libjcat 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 libjcat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libjcat

Install libjcat 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 libjcat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libjcat

How To Uninstall libjcat on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove libjcat

libjcat Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/jcat-tool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/e25f7e862ab22fe10475088e9afacff2b32764
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/5589cb16daa8c0cd06f5ea2a61de07d3e7473e
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Jcat-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libjcat.so.1
/usr/lib64/libjcat.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libjcat
/usr/share/doc/libjcat/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libjcat
/usr/share/licenses/libjcat/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/jcat-tool.1.gz

References

libjcat website

Summary

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