How To Install ibp on Fedora 34

ibp is A tool to show which IBP beacons are transmitting

Introduction

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

What is `ibp`

The International Beacon Project is a set of 18 amateur (ham) radio transmitters around the world, each of which transmit every 3 minutes on a set of 5 short-wave frequencies. This allows short-wave radio users to quickly assess the current worldwide propagation conditions. Much more information can be found on http

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

Install ibp 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 ibp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ibp

Install ibp 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 ibp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ibp

How To Uninstall ibp on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ibp

ibp Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ibp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/60bea3450c8653700d4fd0fed66df21fc6e8a2
/usr/share/applications/ibp.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ibp
/usr/share/doc/ibp/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ibp.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/ibp.png

References

ibp website

Summary

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