How To Install neard on Fedora 34

neard is Near Field Communication (NFC) manager Near Field Communication (NFC) manager

Introduction

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

What is `neard`

neard is an NFC (Near Field Communication) daemon for managing NFC operations on devices running the Linux operating system. It relies on the Linux kernel NFC socket and generic netlink families, and is a fully modular system that can be extended through plug-ins. It supports all 4 NFC tag types reading and writing, along with NFC LLCP (peer to peer mode) in both target and initiator modes. neard 0.16 11.fc34 x86_64 143 k neard-0.16-11.fc34.src.rpm fedora Near Field Communication (NFC) manager https GPLv2 neard is an NFC (Near Field Communication) daemon for managing NFC operations on devices running the Linux operating system. It relies on the Linux kernel NFC socket and generic netlink families, and is a fully modular system that can be extended through plug-ins. It supports all 4 NFC tag types reading and writing, along with NFC LLCP (peer to peer mode) in both target and initiator modes.

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

Install neard 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 neard using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install neard

Install neard 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 neard using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install neard

How To Uninstall neard on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove neard

neard Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.neard.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/7730f5769b5ae5577d3ee05cc9945ef9de5277
/usr/lib/systemd/system/neard.service
/usr/libexec/nfc/neard
/usr/share/licenses/neard
/usr/share/licenses/neard/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/neard.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/neard.8.gz
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.neard.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/7adc123d7564ebe5bb277ad88e46c6fe2182a4
/usr/lib/systemd/system/neard.service
/usr/libexec/nfc/neard
/usr/share/licenses/neard
/usr/share/licenses/neard/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/neard.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/neard.8.gz

References

[neard website](https://01.org/linux-nfc/ https://01.org/linux-nfc/)

Summary

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