How To Install ckermit on CentOS 8

ckermit is The quintessential all-purpose communications program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ckermit on CentOS 8.

What is ckermit

C-Kermit is a combined serial and network communication software package offering a consistent, medium-independent, cross-platform approach to connection establishment, terminal sessions, file transfer and management, character-set translation, and automation of communication tasks.

We can use yum or dnf to install ckermit on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ckermit.

Install ckermit on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install ckermit

Install ckermit on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install ckermit

How To Uninstall ckermit on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove ckermit

ckermit Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/kermit
/etc/kermit/ckermit.ini
/etc/kermit/ckermit.local.ini
/etc/kermit/ckermit.locale.ini
/etc/kermit/ckermit.modem.ini
/etc/kermit/ckermit.phone
/usr/bin/kermit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/32d8cdfe240dceefb0223c3ef28021c979ea9f
/usr/share/doc/ckermit
/usr/share/doc/ckermit/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/ckermit/ckc302.txt
/usr/share/licenses/ckermit
/usr/share/licenses/ckermit/COPYING.TXT
/usr/share/man/man1/kermit.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ckermit on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.