How To Install fmtools on Fedora 34

fmtools is Simple Video for Linux radio card programs

Introduction

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

What is fmtools

This is a pair of hopefully useful control programs for Video for Linux (v4l2) radio card drivers. The focus is on control, so you may find these programs a bit unfriendly. Users are encouraged to investigate the source and create wrappers or new programs based on this design. fm - a simple tuner fmscan - a simple band scanner

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

Install fmtools 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 fmtools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fmtools

Install fmtools 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 fmtools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fmtools

How To Uninstall fmtools on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fmtools

fmtools Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fm
/usr/bin/fmscan
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/f62facee877c91dcbe3e5aa35b21ed10286a32
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/5506dca37f5304139f71d47dd004f8c2dde114
/usr/share/doc/fmtools
/usr/share/doc/fmtools/README
/usr/share/licenses/fmtools
/usr/share/licenses/fmtools/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/fm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fmscan.1.gz

References

Summary

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