How To Install minicom on Fedora 34

minicom is A text-based modem control and terminal emulation program

Introduction

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

What is minicom

Minicom is a simple text-based modem control and terminal emulation program somewhat similar to MSDOS Telix. Minicom includes a dialing directory, full ANSI and VT100 emulation, an (external) scripting language, and other features.

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

Install minicom 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 minicom using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install minicom

Install minicom 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 minicom using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install minicom

How To Uninstall minicom on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove minicom

minicom Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ascii-xfr
/usr/bin/minicom
/usr/bin/runscript
/usr/bin/xminicom
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/5168ad5e91a471d6e4685ba2082753b7e550b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/1369d5b78f0be329845cdae01012f194a32f36
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/a038b51d4438e67670d5373d9fb93b0313914c
/usr/share/doc/minicom
/usr/share/doc/minicom/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Announce-1.78
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Announce-1.82
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Announce-1.82.1
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Announce-1.83
/usr/share/doc/minicom/COMPATABILITY.lrzsz
/usr/share/doc/minicom/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/minicom/ChangeLog.old
/usr/share/doc/minicom/HistSearch
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Locales
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Macros
/usr/share/doc/minicom/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/minicom/QuickStart.modemu
/usr/share/doc/minicom/README.lrzsz
/usr/share/doc/minicom/TODO
/usr/share/doc/minicom/TODO.lrzsz
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Todo
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Todo.175
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Todo.Irix.dif
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Todo.emacskey.dif
/usr/share/doc/minicom/Todo.fsel
/usr/share/doc/minicom/copyright.modemu
/usr/share/doc/minicom/fselector.txt
/usr/share/doc/minicom/japanese
/usr/share/doc/minicom/minicom.FAQ
/usr/share/doc/minicom/minirc.dfl
/usr/share/doc/minicom/modemu.README
/usr/share/doc/minicom/pl-translation.txt
/usr/share/doc/minicom/portugues-brasil
/usr/share/doc/minicom/suomeksi
/usr/share/licenses/minicom
/usr/share/licenses/minicom/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/minicom.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/ascii-xfr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/minicom.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/runscript.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xminicom.1.gz

References

Summary

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