How To Install tcl-hamlib on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-hamlib on CentOS 8.
What is tcl-hamlib
Hamlib TCL Language bindings to allow radio control from TCL scripts.
We can use yum or dnf to install tcl-hamlib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcl-hamlib.
Install tcl-hamlib 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 tcl-hamlib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcl-hamlib
Install tcl-hamlib 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 tcl-hamlib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcl-hamlib
How To Uninstall tcl-hamlib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tcl-hamlib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcl-hamlib
tcl-hamlib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/72936ae95e78c95dae9ebbd115bc5e25731bee
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/Hamlib
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/Hamlib/hamlibtcl-4.0.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-hamlib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.