How To Install librs232 on Fedora 34

librs232 is Library for serial communications over RS-232 with Lua bindings Library for serial communications over RS-232 with Lua bindings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librs232 on Fedora 34.

What is `librs232`

librs232 is a multi-platform library that provides support for communicating over serial ports (e.g. RS-232). It also provides Lua bindings. librs232 1.0.4 4.20191120gitc106c94.fc34 x86_64 18 k librs232-1.0.4-4.20191120gitc106c94.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library for serial communications over RS-232 with Lua bindings https MIT librs232 is a multi-platform library that provides support for communicating over serial ports (e.g. RS-232). It also provides Lua bindings.

We can use yum or dnf to install librs232 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install librs232.

Install librs232 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 librs232 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install librs232

Install librs232 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 librs232 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install librs232

How To Uninstall librs232 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the librs232 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove librs232

librs232 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/c5ce2f8386599713f2d225ab96cd0cc8c45b1d
/usr/lib64/librs232.so.1
/usr/lib64/librs232.so.1.0.3
/usr/share/doc/librs232
/usr/share/doc/librs232/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/librs232/example.lua
/usr/share/licenses/librs232
/usr/share/licenses/librs232/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/d312e11821feeb64e79940634ed52ccc1d74b9
/usr/lib/librs232.so.1
/usr/lib/librs232.so.1.0.3
/usr/share/doc/librs232
/usr/share/doc/librs232/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/librs232/example.lua
/usr/share/licenses/librs232
/usr/share/licenses/librs232/COPYING

References

[librs232 website](https://github.com/srdgame/librs232/ https://github.com/srdgame/librs232/)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librs232 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.