How To Install cpmtools on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpmtools
on Fedora 34.
What is cpmtools
This package allows to access CP/M file systems similar to the well-known mtools package, which accesses MSDOS file systems. I use it for file exchange with a Z80-PC simulator, but it works on floppy devices as well.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install cpmtools
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cpmtools.
Install cpmtools 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 cpmtools
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cpmtools
Install cpmtools 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 cpmtools
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cpmtools
How To Uninstall cpmtools on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cpmtools
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cpmtools
cpmtools Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cpmchattr
/usr/bin/cpmchmod
/usr/bin/cpmcp
/usr/bin/cpmls
/usr/bin/cpmrm
/usr/bin/fsck.cpm
/usr/bin/fsed.cpm
/usr/bin/mkfs.cpm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/ced94149b11446938976b5273715ad83130919
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/4e2e6d0332bf9008e4e996d853f22bb25a6ea2
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/3b659733c17dce2123659c563cfeae79237d65
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/54dcf5461ccf7e2200d30051762e867a31c959
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/00cbd78498d1d460ab9692c1eb73f07f777d2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/bd78161f520810a57593f5fb7dc58df823758f
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/a0ef11b98e3a7c53acd38b3ed525d01a63a441
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/cb2637526c6da93414d0e99db5e0e9d743059d
/usr/share/cpmtools
/usr/share/cpmtools/diskdefs
/usr/share/doc/cpmtools
/usr/share/doc/cpmtools/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cpmtools/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/cpmtools/README
/usr/share/man/man1/cpmchattr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cpmchmod.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cpmcp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cpmls.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cpmrm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fsck.cpm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fsed.cpm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mkfs.cpm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/cpm.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpmtools
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.