How To Install libpmemobj-debug on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmemobj-debug in Fedora 36. libpmemobj-debug is Debug variant of the Persistent Memory Transactional Object Store library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpmemobj-debug on Fedora 36.

What is `libpmemobj-debug`

The libpmemobj library provides a transactional object store, providing memory allocation, transactions, and general facilities for persistent memory programming. Developers new to persistent memory probably want to start with this library. This sub-package contains debug variant of the library, providing run-time assertions and trace points. The typical way to access the debug version is to set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib64/pmdk_debug.

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

Install libpmemobj-debug 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 libpmemobj-debug using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libpmemobj-debug

Install libpmemobj-debug 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 libpmemobj-debug using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpmemobj-debug

How To Uninstall libpmemobj-debug on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the libpmemobj-debug package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libpmemobj-debug

libpmemobj-debug Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/62e51c7975c9c9130a9f7b0849056d3f6bd8b3
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug/libpmemobj.so
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug/libpmemobj.so.1
/usr/lib64/pmdk_debug/libpmemobj.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj-debug
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj-debug/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj-debug/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libpmemobj-debug/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemobj-debug
/usr/share/licenses/libpmemobj-debug/LICENSE

References

libpmemobj-debug website

Summary

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