How To Install statserial on Fedora 34

statserial is A tool which displays the status of serial port modem lines

Introduction

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

What is statserial

The statserial utility displays a table of the signals on a standard 9-pin or 25-pin serial port and indicates the status of the handshaking lines. Statserial is useful for debugging serial port and/or modem problems.

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

Install statserial 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 statserial using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install statserial

Install statserial 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 statserial using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install statserial

How To Uninstall statserial on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove statserial

statserial Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/statserial
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/d140685528c55c0f7361414723aa99bc064170
/usr/share/doc/statserial
/usr/share/doc/statserial/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/statserial/phone_log
/usr/share/man/man1/statserial.1.gz

References

Summary

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