How To Install flterm on Fedora 34

flterm is Firmware download program

Introduction

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

What is flterm

flterm is a serial terminal, and firmware download program.

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

Install flterm 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 flterm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flterm

Install flterm 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 flterm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flterm

How To Uninstall flterm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove flterm

flterm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/flterm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/af4d87e8481e99ad2741c02f8cb947e0986323

References

Summary

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