How To Install libmodbus on Fedora 34

libmodbus is A Modbus library A Modbus library

Introduction

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

What is libmodbus

libmodbus is a C library designed to provide a fast and robust implementation of the Modbus protocol. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, QNX and Windows. This package contains the libmodbus shared library. libmodbus 3.0.8 4.fc34 x86_64 50 k libmodbus-3.0.8-4.fc34.src.rpm fedora A Modbus library http LGPLv2+ libmodbus is a C library designed to provide a fast and robust implementation of the Modbus protocol. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, QNX and Windows. This package contains the libmodbus shared library.

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

Install libmodbus 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 libmodbus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libmodbus

Install libmodbus 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 libmodbus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libmodbus

How To Uninstall libmodbus on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libmodbus

libmodbus Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/f3d42991b6628e34030b52d73cd25b34917ffa
/usr/lib64/libmodbus.so.5
/usr/lib64/libmodbus.so.5.0.5
/usr/share/doc/libmodbus
/usr/share/doc/libmodbus/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libmodbus/MIGRATION
/usr/share/doc/libmodbus/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libmodbus/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/libmodbus
/usr/share/licenses/libmodbus/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libmodbus/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/aadfa210f5f81365b3c851e1b49e671c8a010b
/usr/lib/libmodbus.so.5
/usr/lib/libmodbus.so.5.0.5
/usr/share/doc/libmodbus
/usr/share/doc/libmodbus/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libmodbus/MIGRATION
/usr/share/doc/libmodbus/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libmodbus/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/libmodbus
/usr/share/licenses/libmodbus/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libmodbus/COPYING.LESSER

References

Summary

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