How To Install ultimarc on CentOS 8

ultimarc is Library and command line utility to configure Ultimarc boards

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ultimarc on CentOS 8.

What is ultimarc

This utility will configure the following Ultimarc boards IPAC Ultimate, I-Pac 2, I-Pac 4, Mini-Pac, JPAC, UltraStik 360, PacLED64, U-HID and U-HID Nano. There is support for the PAC 2015 boards, UltraStik 2015 board and the previous generation of the PAC boards. It uses JSON configuration files to configure the different boards. It also supports the ability to change the device ID of the UltraStik 360 boards, allowing for the configuring of four different boards at once.

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

Install ultimarc 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 ultimarc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ultimarc

Install ultimarc 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 ultimarc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ultimarc

How To Uninstall ultimarc on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove ultimarc

ultimarc Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/umtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/96aa7d3e41901feefd3e44e5f1f6257c13cf32
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/21-ultimarc.rules
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/README.md
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ipac2_2014_TestMacro.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ipac2_2014_default.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ipac2_2015_TestMacro.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ipac2_2015_default.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ipac4_2014_default.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ipac4_2015_default.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ipacultimate_config.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ipacultimate_led.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ipacultimate_pins.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/jpac_2015_default.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/minipac_2014_default.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/minipac_2015_default.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/multiple.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/pacLED.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/pacLED_all.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/pacLED_config.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/pacdrive.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/u-hid.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/u-hid_nano.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2014_config.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2014_map2way.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2015_analog.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2015_config.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2015_djoy4way.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2015_easyjoy8way.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2015_joy2way.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2015_joy4way.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2015_joy8way.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2015_map2way.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2015_mouse.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2015_udbjoy4way.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/ultrastik_2015_vjoy2way.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/usbbutton.json
/usr/share/doc/ultimarc/examples/usbbutton_color.json
/usr/share/licenses/ultimarc
/usr/share/licenses/ultimarc/LICENSE

References

Summary

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