How To Install multican on Fedora 34

multican is Remote control utility for Canon cameras Remote control utility for Canon cameras

Introduction

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

What is `multican`

Multican is Canon EOS class USB remote control utility for 300D, 350D, 30D, 20D and 5D. It is possible to control more of Canon cameras in the same time up to six cameras attached. Multican allows scripted remote control of multiple cameras. multican 0.0.5 27.fc34 x86_64 40 k multican-0.0.5-27.fc34.src.rpm fedora Remote control utility for Canon cameras http GPLv2 Multican is Canon EOS class USB remote control utility for 300D, 350D, 30D, 20D and 5D. It is possible to control more of Canon cameras in the same time up to six cameras attached. Multican allows scripted remote control of multiple cameras.

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

Install multican 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 multican using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install multican

Install multican 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 multican using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install multican

How To Uninstall multican on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove multican

multican Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/multican
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/9ed8ab208feaac09c43829ff5030dc1a27a91f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/86595fd4548793205c8b44aee6bff87342d9eb
/usr/lib/libmultican.so.0
/usr/share/doc/multican
/usr/share/doc/multican/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/multican/README
/usr/bin/multican
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/9c39af6cf6679080d01c258c8fabdb5da97629
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/4e34ed7508c3d047bc5a5240c979219bbd5123
/usr/lib64/libmultican.so.0
/usr/share/doc/multican
/usr/share/doc/multican/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/multican/README

References

[multican website](http://multican.sourceforge.net/ http://multican.sourceforge.net/)

Summary

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