How To Install qt5-qtserialport on CentOS 8

qt5-qtserialport is Qt5 - SerialPort component Qt5 - SerialPort component

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-qtserialport on CentOS 8.

What is qt5-qtserialport

Qt Serial Port provides the basic functionality, which includes configuring, I/O operations, getting and setting the control signals of the RS-232 pinouts. qt5-qtserialport 5.12.5 1.el8 x86_64 71 k qt5-qtserialport-5.12.5-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Qt5 - SerialPort component http LGPLv2 with exceptions or GPLv3 with exceptions Qt Serial Port provides the basic functionality, which includes configuring, I/O operations, getting and setting the control signals of the RS-232 pinouts.

We can use yum or dnf to install qt5-qtserialport on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qt5-qtserialport.

Install qt5-qtserialport 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 qt5-qtserialport using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qt5-qtserialport

Install qt5-qtserialport 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 qt5-qtserialport using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qt5-qtserialport

How To Uninstall qt5-qtserialport on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the qt5-qtserialport package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove qt5-qtserialport

qt5-qtserialport Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/126e23015792cebf1d01fdb18808471e711408
/usr/lib/libQt5SerialPort.so.5
/usr/lib/libQt5SerialPort.so.5.12
/usr/lib/libQt5SerialPort.so.5.12.5
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport/LICENSE.FDL
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport/LICENSE.GPL2
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport/LICENSE.GPL3-EXCEPT
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport/LICENSE.LGPL3
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/f6cef7f6fde9911bd7fc4928e298b8edf21527
/usr/lib64/libQt5SerialPort.so.5
/usr/lib64/libQt5SerialPort.so.5.12
/usr/lib64/libQt5SerialPort.so.5.12.5
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport/LICENSE.FDL
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport/LICENSE.GPL2
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport/LICENSE.GPL3-EXCEPT
/usr/share/licenses/qt5-qtserialport/LICENSE.LGPL3

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qt5-qtserialport on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.