How To Install minicom on CentOS 8

minicom is A text-based modem control and terminal emulation program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install minicom on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install minicom.

Install minicom 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 minicom using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install minicom

Install minicom 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 minicom using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install minicom

How To Uninstall minicom on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove minicom

minicom Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/ascii-xfr
/usr/bin/minicom
/usr/bin/runscript
/usr/bin/xminicom
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/11e4dc73667c2c6c3aca1c76367a9236c69812
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/c72cb58a7c8377a87c445272a57539fbb2e9f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/22b13d42e41ca5297b05f9b2476112a84653f7
/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

minicom website

Summary

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