How To Install cwdaemon on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cwdaemon on Fedora 34.
What is cwdaemon
Cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses the pc parallel or serial port and a simple transistor switch to output morse code to a transmitter from a text message sent to it via the udp internet protocol.
We can use yum or dnf to install cwdaemon on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cwdaemon.
Install cwdaemon 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 cwdaemon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cwdaemon
Install cwdaemon 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 cwdaemon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cwdaemon
How To Uninstall cwdaemon on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cwdaemon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cwdaemon
cwdaemon Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/sysconfig/cwdaemon
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/7beb70fbb09a8580279e91977f7f5b0cbc1071
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cwdaemon.service
/usr/sbin/cwdaemon
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/README
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/TODO
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/cwdaemon.png
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/cwsetup.sh
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/example.c
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/example.pl
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/example.sh
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/parallelport_circuit.jpg
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/parallelport_circuit.ps
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/serialport_circuit.jpg
/usr/share/doc/cwdaemon/serialport_circuit.ps
/usr/share/man/man8/cwdaemon.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cwdaemon on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.