How To Install mingw64-libosinfo on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-libosinfo in Fedora 36. mingw64-libosinfo is MinGW Windows port of a library for managing OS information for virtualization

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-libosinfo on Fedora 36.

What is `mingw64-libosinfo`

libosinfo is a library that allows virtualization provisioning tools to determine the optimal device settings for a hypervisor/operating system combination.

We can use yum or dnf to install mingw64-libosinfo on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw64-libosinfo.

Install mingw64-libosinfo 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 mingw64-libosinfo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mingw64-libosinfo

Install mingw64-libosinfo 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 mingw64-libosinfo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mingw64-libosinfo

How To Uninstall mingw64-libosinfo on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the mingw64-libosinfo package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mingw64-libosinfo

mingw64-libosinfo Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/mingw64-libosinfo
/usr/share/doc/mingw64-libosinfo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mingw64-libosinfo/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/mingw64-libosinfo/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mingw64-libosinfo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mingw64-libosinfo/README
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libosinfo-1.0-0.dll
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/osinfo-detect.exe
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/osinfo-install-script.exe
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/osinfo-query.exe
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_avatar_format.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_datamap.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_datamaplist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_db.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_deployment.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_deploymentlist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_device.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_device_driver.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_device_driverlist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_devicelink.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_devicelinkfilter.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_devicelinklist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_devicelist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_entity.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_enum_types.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_filter.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_firmware.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_firmwarelist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_image.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_imagelist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_install_config.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_install_config_param.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_install_config_paramlist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_install_script.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_install_scriptlist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_list.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_loader.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_macros.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_media.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_medialist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_os.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_os_variant.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_os_variantlist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_oslist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_platform.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_platformlist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_product.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_productfilter.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_productlist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_resources.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_resourceslist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_tree.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_treelist.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/libosinfo-1.0/osinfo/osinfo_version.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libosinfo-1.0.dll.a
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/libosinfo-1.0.pc
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/libosinfo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/libosinfo/pci.ids
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/libosinfo/usb.ids
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libosinfo.mo

References

mingw64-libosinfo website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-libosinfo on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).