How To Install freerouting on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freerouting on Fedora 34.
What is freerouting
FreeRouting is a routing software intended but not limited for Printed Circuit Boards (PCB). By using the standard Specctra or Electra DSN interface it works together with numerous CAD tools including the LayoutEditor, KiCad and Eagle. It imports DSN-files generated by the Specctra interface and exports Specctra session files. FreeRouting was developed in 2004 by Alfons Wirtz. He stopped the development in 2008 and published the source code under the GPL in 2014. From 2015 FreeRouting is included in the LayoutEditor packages and its source code is maintained by its team.
We can use yum or dnf to install freerouting on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freerouting.
Install freerouting 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 freerouting using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freerouting
Install freerouting 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 freerouting using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freerouting
How To Uninstall freerouting on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the freerouting package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freerouting
freerouting Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/freerouting
/usr/share/applications/freerouting.desktop
/usr/share/doc/freerouting
/usr/share/doc/freerouting/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/freerouting.svg
/usr/share/java/freerouting.jar
/usr/share/licenses/freerouting
/usr/share/licenses/freerouting/LICENSE
/usr/share/metainfo/freerouting.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/freerouting.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freerouting on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
