How To Install minicom on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install minicom
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is minicom
Minicom is a simple text-based modem control and terminal emulation program somewhat similar to MSDOS Telix. Minicom includes a dialing directory, full ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external) scripting language, and other features.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install minicom
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install minicom.
Install minicom on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install minicom
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install minicom
Install minicom on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install minicom
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install minicom
How To Uninstall minicom on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the minicom
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove minicom
minicom Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/ascii-xfr
/usr/bin/minicom
/usr/bin/runscript
/usr/bin/xminicom
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/163d58f04e00a15d5ed1cb4970b8cccb5e1896
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/26e44dc738f69be295cea6593bab6310edbdc3
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/ca0dbadf13779a768f36af57c50716a869b191
/usr/share/doc/minicom
/usr/share/doc/minicom/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Announce-1.78
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Announce-1.82
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Announce-1.82.1
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Announce-1.83
/usr/share/doc/minicom/COMPATABILITY.lrzsz
/usr/share/doc/minicom/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/minicom/ChangeLog.old
/usr/share/doc/minicom/HistSearch
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Locales
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Macros
/usr/share/doc/minicom/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/minicom/QuickStart.modemu
/usr/share/doc/minicom/README.lrzsz
/usr/share/doc/minicom/TODO
/usr/share/doc/minicom/TODO.lrzsz
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Todo
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Todo.175
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Todo.Irix.dif
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Todo.emacskey.dif
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Todo.fsel
/usr/share/doc/minicom/copyright.modemu
/usr/share/doc/minicom/fselector.txt
/usr/share/doc/minicom/japanese
/usr/share/doc/minicom/minicom.FAQ
/usr/share/doc/minicom/minirc.dfl
/usr/share/doc/minicom/modemu.README
/usr/share/doc/minicom/pl-translation.txt
/usr/share/doc/minicom/portugues-brasil
/usr/share/doc/minicom/suomeksi
/usr/share/licenses/minicom
/usr/share/licenses/minicom/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/ascii-xfr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/minicom.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/runscript.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xminicom.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install minicom
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.