How To Install rubygem-levenshtein on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-levenshtein in Fedora 36. rubygem-levenshtein is Calculates the Levenshtein distance between two byte strings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-levenshtein on Fedora 36.

What is rubygem-levenshtein

Calculates the Levenshtein distance between two byte strings. The Levenshtein distance is a metric for measuring the amount of difference between two sequences (i.e., the so called edit distance). The Levenshtein distance between two sequences is given by the minimum number of operations needed to transform one sequence into the other, where an operation is an insertion, deletion, or substitution of a single element.

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

Install rubygem-levenshtein 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 rubygem-levenshtein using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rubygem-levenshtein

Install rubygem-levenshtein 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 rubygem-levenshtein using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rubygem-levenshtein

How To Uninstall rubygem-levenshtein on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the rubygem-levenshtein package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rubygem-levenshtein

rubygem-levenshtein Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/574535a8c7ae75761e5b221288ff69b6c09a70
/usr/lib64/gems/ruby/levenshtein-0.2.2
/usr/lib64/gems/ruby/levenshtein-0.2.2/gem.build_complete
/usr/lib64/gems/ruby/levenshtein-0.2.2/levenshtein
/usr/lib64/gems/ruby/levenshtein-0.2.2/levenshtein/levenshtein_fast.so
/usr/share/gems/gems/levenshtein-0.2.2
/usr/share/gems/gems/levenshtein-0.2.2/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/gems/gems/levenshtein-0.2.2/LICENSE
/usr/share/gems/gems/levenshtein-0.2.2/README
/usr/share/gems/gems/levenshtein-0.2.2/VERSION
/usr/share/gems/gems/levenshtein-0.2.2/lib
/usr/share/gems/gems/levenshtein-0.2.2/lib/levenshtein
/usr/share/gems/gems/levenshtein-0.2.2/lib/levenshtein.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/levenshtein-0.2.2/lib/levenshtein/version.rb
/usr/share/gems/specifications/levenshtein-0.2.2.gemspec

References

Summary

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