How To Install tcl-hamlib on CentOS 8

tcl-hamlib is Hamlib radio control library TCL binding

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.