How To Install direwolf on Fedora 34

direwolf is Sound Card-based AX.25 TNC

Introduction

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

What is direwolf

Dire Wolf is a modern software replacement for the old 1980’s style TNC built with special hardware. Without any additional software, it can perform as an APRS GPS Tracker, Digipeater, Internet Gateway (IGate), APRStt gateway. It can also be used as a virtual TNC for other applications such as APRSIS32, UI-View32, Xastir, APRS-TW, YAAC, UISS, Linux AX25, SARTrack, Winlink Express, BPQ32, Outpost PM, and many others.

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

Install direwolf 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 direwolf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install direwolf

Install direwolf 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 direwolf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install direwolf

How To Uninstall direwolf on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove direwolf

direwolf Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/direwolf.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/direwolf
/etc/sysconfig/direwolf
/usr/bin/aclients
/usr/bin/appserver
/usr/bin/atest
/usr/bin/cm108
/usr/bin/decode_aprs
/usr/bin/direwolf
/usr/bin/dwespeak.sh
/usr/bin/gen_packets
/usr/bin/kissutil
/usr/bin/ll2utm
/usr/bin/log2gpx
/usr/bin/text2tt
/usr/bin/tt2text
/usr/bin/ttcalc
/usr/bin/utm2ll
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/0a869300ec585ef7f81c2063701d039135cb0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/ca66496d38c98e25d0448c378e0fa2f7d21674
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/091380efa30fd7b38412b74cfe541ce1940e1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/08d0a8c126d4395978ae89552c8d4dae46248d
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/341f386778896a807b736bb39795cc75081b17
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/c6cacfaee791886f052d7e1917e04034d39d97
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/85f1047423d599534be845e8842f2063104cc1
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/62af5528d016b24e6f120e38e51e094c8bbe28
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/7bfb2caf65eef4fd8482ceae51d4a487ce7b79
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/41fb416b340f7efb5a35d2173f956526449648
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/f50a610da2c00a7b703d5bea8a0456f899332a
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/2cad2d8f2e5afcf67957377fc40ae7286347e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/ecd3b2341a6606534834b3ca89c95854042b23
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/1960be212bf14294ab8d6d8da6eca81c71055c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/direwolf.service
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-direwolf-cmedia.rules
/usr/share/direwolf/symbols-new.txt
/usr/share/direwolf/symbolsX.txt
/usr/share/direwolf/tocalls.txt
/usr/share/doc/direwolf
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/conf/direwolf.conf
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/conf/sdr.conf
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/conf/telem-balloon.conf
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/conf/telem-m0xer-3.txt
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/conf/telem-volts.conf
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/scripts/dw-start.sh
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/telem/telem-balloon.pl
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/telem/telem-bits.pl
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/telem/telem-data.pl
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/telem/telem-data91.pl
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/telem/telem-eqns.pl
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/telem/telem-parm.pl
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/telem/telem-seq.sh
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/telem/telem-unit.pl
/usr/share/doc/direwolf/telem/telem-volts.py
/usr/share/licenses/direwolf
/usr/share/licenses/direwolf/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/aclients.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/atest.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/decode_aprs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/direwolf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gen_packets.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kissutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ll2utm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/log2gpx.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/text2tt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tt2text.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/utm2ll.1.gz
/var/log/direwolf

References

Summary

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