How To Install minicom.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install minicom.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. minicom.x86_64 is A text-based modem control and terminal emulation program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install minicom.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is minicom.x86_64

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 to install minicom.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install minicom.x86_64.

Install minicom.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install minicom.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install minicom.x86_64

How To Uninstall minicom.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the minicom.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove minicom.x86_64

minicom.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/ascii-xfr
/usr/bin/minicom
/usr/bin/runscript
/usr/bin/xminicom
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/Announce-1.78
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/Announce-1.82
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/Announce-1.82.1
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/Announce-1.83
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/COMPATABILITY.lrzsz
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/ChangeLog.old
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/HistSearch
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/Locales
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/Macros
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/QuickStart.modemu
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/README.lrzsz
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/TODO
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/TODO.lrzsz
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/Todo
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/Todo.175
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/Todo.Irix.dif
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/Todo.emacskey.dif
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/Todo.fsel
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/copyright.modemu
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/fselector.txt
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/japanese
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/minicom.FAQ
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/minirc.dfl
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/modemu.README
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/pl-translation.txt
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/portugues-brasil
/usr/share/doc/minicom-2.6.2/suomeksi
/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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.