How To Install aprsdigi on Fedora 34

aprsdigi is AX.25 Automatic Position Reporting System

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aprsdigi on Fedora 34.

What is aprsdigi

Aprsdigi is a specialized Amateur Packet Radio (AX.25) UI-frame digipeater for the Automatic Position Reporting Systems, APRS(tm). It uses the Linux kernel AX.25 network stack as well as the SOCK_PACKET facility to listen for packets on one or more radio interfaces (ports) and repeat those packets – with several possible modifications – on the same or other interfaces. Aprsdigi can also use the Internet to tunnel connections among other APRS digipeaters and nodes using IPv4 or IPv6 UDP unicast or multicast.

We can use yum or dnf to install aprsdigi on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aprsdigi.

Install aprsdigi on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aprsdigi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aprsdigi

Install aprsdigi on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install aprsdigi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aprsdigi

How To Uninstall aprsdigi on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove aprsdigi

aprsdigi Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/ax25
/etc/ax25/aprsdigi.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/aprsdigi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/a4c3fdf38c5697e01ced21a2a53f066487a653
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/dc3a16ca28e6ad4fee3afdceb7b0911e5f7d14
/usr/lib/systemd/system/aprsbeacon.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/aprsdigi.service
/usr/sbin/aprsdigi
/usr/sbin/aprsmon
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/README
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/TODO
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/aprsdigi.html
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/aprsmon.html
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/examples
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/examples/README.examples
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/examples/aprsdigi-fc17.ks
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/examples/aprsdigi.conf
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/examples/axports
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/fiforead.html
/usr/share/doc/aprsdigi/fifowrite.html
/usr/share/licenses/aprsdigi
/usr/share/licenses/aprsdigi/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/aprsdigi.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aprsmon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fiforead.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fifowrite.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aprsdigi on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.