How To Install flexiport on Fedora 34

flexiport is Flexible communications library Flexible communications library

Introduction

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

What is `flexiport`

Flexiport provides a consistent interface for communicating over a range of data port types. Currently serial (including serial-over-USB), TCP and UDP ports are supported. Logging is supported which allows communications sessions to be played back at a later date without the original hardware present. flexiport 2.0.0 21.20120701git1b6103d.fc34 x86_64 98 k flexiport-2.0.0-21.20120701git1b6103d.fc34.src.rpm fedora Flexible communications library https LGPLv3 Flexiport provides a consistent interface for communicating over a range of data port types. Currently serial (including serial-over-USB), TCP and UDP ports are supported. Logging is supported which allows communications sessions to be played back at a later date without the original hardware present.

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

Install flexiport 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 flexiport using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flexiport

Install flexiport 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 flexiport using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flexiport

How To Uninstall flexiport on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove flexiport

flexiport Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/5029e9161f69abf33c87b8f5a9112c62567bfc
/usr/lib/libflexiport.so.2
/usr/lib/libflexiport.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/flexiport
/usr/share/doc/flexiport/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/flexiport/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/65c26db0743857708e50894507b9e52f9cca4b
/usr/lib64/libflexiport.so.2
/usr/lib64/libflexiport.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/flexiport
/usr/share/doc/flexiport/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/flexiport/COPYING.LESSER

References

[flexiport website](https://github.com/gbiggs/flexiport https://github.com/gbiggs/flexiport)

Summary

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