How To Install fldigi on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fldigi on CentOS 8.
What is fldigi
Fldigi is a modem program which supports most of the digital modes used by ham radio operators today. You can also use the program for calibrating your sound card to WWV or doing a frequency measurement test. The program also comes with a CW decoder. fldigi is written with the help of the Fast Light Toolkit X GUI. Fldigi is a fast moving project many added features with each update. Flarq (Fast Light Automatic Repeat Request) is a file transfer application that is based on the ARQ specification developed by Paul Schmidt, K9PS. It is capable of transmitting and receiving frames of ARQ data via fldigi.
We can use yum or dnf to install fldigi on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fldigi.
Install fldigi 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 fldigi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fldigi
Install fldigi 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 fldigi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fldigi
How To Uninstall fldigi on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fldigi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fldigi
fldigi Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/flarq
/usr/bin/fldigi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/8dc325c81ff7f9020668eb8a3c159f98da0d38
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/c8c244b43aea929f5eb6b3a107c9b0730333f2
/usr/share/applications/flarq.desktop
/usr/share/applications/fldigi.desktop
/usr/share/doc/fldigi
/usr/share/doc/fldigi/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fldigi/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fldigi/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fldigi/README
/usr/share/fldigi
/usr/share/fldigi/NAVTEX_Stations.csv
/usr/share/fldigi/ToR-Stats-SHIP.csv
/usr/share/fldigi/nsd_bbsss.txt
/usr/share/fldigi/station_table.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/fldigi.png
/usr/share/licenses/fldigi
/usr/share/licenses/fldigi/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/flarq.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fldigi.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/flarq.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/fldigi.xpm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fldigi on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.