How To Install minicom on Fedora 34
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.