How To Install linpsk on Fedora 34

linpsk is Psk31 and RTTY program for Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install linpsk on Fedora 34.

What is linpsk

LinPsk is a program for operating on digital modes running on Linux. LinPsk supports BPSK, QPSK and RTTY at the moment. Main features are * the simultaneous decoding of up to four channels. * The different digital modes may be mixed * You can define a trigger on each channel to be notified if a text of your choice is detected. * You can log each received channel at a file. * For easy qso’ing you can define macros and for larger texts to be send you can use two files. * You can view the signal as spectrum or in a waterfall display. Both are scale-able in the frequency domain. At the Moment RTTY only supports 45 baud and 1.5 stop-bits.

We can use yum or dnf to install linpsk on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install linpsk.

Install linpsk on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install linpsk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install linpsk

Install linpsk on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install linpsk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install linpsk

How To Uninstall linpsk on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove linpsk

linpsk Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/skel/.linpsk/asoundrc
/usr/bin/linpsk
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/68437f80d92ad03f679b35a35f22258f85e494
/usr/libexec/linpsk-bin
/usr/share/applications/linpsk.desktop
/usr/share/doc/linpsk
/usr/share/doc/linpsk/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/linpsk/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/linpsk/README
/usr/share/pixmaps/linpsk.png

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install linpsk on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.