How To Install ruby-taglib on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-taglib in Fedora 36. ruby-taglib is Ruby library wrapping the Taglib library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ruby-taglib on Fedora 36.

What is ruby-taglib

ruby-taglib is a simple dl-based wrapper of Taglib’s C library. It’s short and sweet, because the C API is written by someone who knows how to use OO programming, and Ruby with dl just makes it all too easy to wrap such a library.

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

Install ruby-taglib 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 ruby-taglib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ruby-taglib

Install ruby-taglib 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 ruby-taglib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ruby-taglib

How To Uninstall ruby-taglib on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ruby-taglib package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ruby-taglib

ruby-taglib Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/ruby-taglib
/usr/share/doc/ruby-taglib/README
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/taglib.rb

References

Summary

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