How To Install sip6 on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sip6 in Fedora 36. sip6 is SIP - Python/C++ Bindings Generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sip6 on Fedora 36.

What is `sip6`

SIP is a collection of tools that makes it very easy to create Python bindings for C and C++ libraries. It was originally developed in 1998 to create PyQt, the Python bindings for the Qt toolkit, but can be used to create bindings for any C or C++ library. For example it is also used to generate wxPython, the Python bindings for wxWidgets.

We can use yum or dnf to install sip6 on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sip6.

Install sip6 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 sip6 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sip6

Install sip6 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 sip6 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sip6

How To Uninstall sip6 on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the sip6 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sip6

sip6 Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/sip-build
/usr/bin/sip-distinfo
/usr/bin/sip-install
/usr/bin/sip-module
/usr/bin/sip-sdist
/usr/bin/sip-wheel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/fa1334ba7377ff19f3b5e7d263e02962f5bab1
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/sip-6.5.0-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/sip-6.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/sip-6.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/sip-6.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/sip-6.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/sip-6.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/sip-6.5.0-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/sipbuild
/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/sipbuild/__init__.py
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/usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages/sipbuild/version.py
/usr/share/doc/sip6
/usr/share/doc/sip6/README
/usr/share/licenses/sip6
/usr/share/licenses/sip6/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/sip6/LICENSE-GPL2
/usr/share/licenses/sip6/LICENSE-GPL3

References

sip6 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sip6 on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).