How To Install R-filelock on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install R-filelock in Fedora 36. R-filelock is Portable File Locking

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install R-filelock on Fedora 36.

What is `R-filelock`

Place an exclusive or shared lock on a file. It uses ‘LockFile’ on Windows and ‘fcntl’ locks on Unix-like systems.

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

Install R-filelock 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 R-filelock using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install R-filelock

Install R-filelock 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 R-filelock using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install R-filelock

How To Uninstall R-filelock on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the R-filelock package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove R-filelock

R-filelock Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/4f5fc00dcf5b299cd0aa0608b4e2131722fd16
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/DESCRIPTION
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/INDEX
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/LICENSE
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/Meta
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/Meta/Rd.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/Meta/features.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/Meta/hsearch.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/Meta/links.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/Meta/nsInfo.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/Meta/package.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/NAMESPACE
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/NEWS.md
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/R
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/R/filelock
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/R/filelock.rdb
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/R/filelock.rdx
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/WORDLIST
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/help
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/help/AnIndex
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/help/aliases.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/help/filelock.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/help/filelock.rdb
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/help/filelock.rdx
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/help/lock.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/help/paths.rds
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/help/unlock.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/html
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/html/00Index.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/html/R.css
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/html/lock.html
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/libs
/usr/lib64/R/library/filelock/libs/filelock.so

References

R-filelock website

Summary

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