How To Install ioport on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ioport on Fedora 34.
What is ioport
These commands enable command line and script access directly to I/O ports on PC hardware. The inb, inw and inl commands perform an input (read) operation on the given I/O port, and print the result. The outb, outw and outl commands perform an output (write) operation to the given I/O port, sending the given data. Note that the order of the parameters is ADDRESS DATA. The size of the operation is selected according to the suffix, with ‘b’ meaning byte, ‘w’ meaning word (16 bits) and ’l’ meaning long (32 bits).
We can use yum or dnf to install ioport on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ioport.
Install ioport 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 ioport using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ioport
Install ioport 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 ioport using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ioport
How To Uninstall ioport on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ioport package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ioport
ioport Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/inb
/usr/bin/inl
/usr/bin/inw
/usr/bin/outb
/usr/bin/outl
/usr/bin/outw
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/6f8aa309dc7f548937ed87a3eb889773fb5be6
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/6f8aa309dc7f548937ed87a3eb889773fb5be6.1
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/6f8aa309dc7f548937ed87a3eb889773fb5be6.2
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/6f8aa309dc7f548937ed87a3eb889773fb5be6.3
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/6f8aa309dc7f548937ed87a3eb889773fb5be6.4
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/6f8aa309dc7f548937ed87a3eb889773fb5be6.5
/usr/share/doc/ioport
/usr/share/doc/ioport/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ioport/README
/usr/share/man/man1/inb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/inl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/inw.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/outb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/outl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/outw.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ioport on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.