How To Install gtkterm on Fedora 34

gtkterm is Serial port terminal

Introduction

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

What is gtkterm

Simple GUI terminal used to communicate with the serial port. Similar to minicom or hyperterminal.

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

Install gtkterm 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 gtkterm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gtkterm

Install gtkterm 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 gtkterm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gtkterm

How To Uninstall gtkterm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gtkterm

gtkterm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gtkterm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/f4e8487a86b0e0d51222292cf8df60702c3eff
/usr/share/applications/gtkterm.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gtkterm
/usr/share/doc/gtkterm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gtkterm/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gtkterm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gtkterm/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gtkterm/README.md
/usr/share/doc/gtkterm/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gtkterm.png
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gtkterm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gtkterm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gtkterm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gtkterm.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gtkterm.1.gz

References

Summary

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