How To Install pulseview on Fedora 34

pulseview is Signal acquisition and analysis GUI for sigrok

Introduction

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

What is pulseview

PulseView is an application for enabling data acquisition and analysis with test and measurement devices such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, mixed-signal devices, digital multimeters and sensors, etc. It uses sigrok libraries under the hood.

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

Install pulseview 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 pulseview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pulseview

Install pulseview 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 pulseview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pulseview

How To Uninstall pulseview on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pulseview

pulseview Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pulseview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/07fde8fc44fb5e0acf6cf5318274654b542019
/usr/share/appdata/org.sigrok.PulseView.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/org.sigrok.PulseView.desktop
/usr/share/doc/pulseview
/usr/share/doc/pulseview/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/pulseview.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/pulseview.svg
/usr/share/licenses/pulseview
/usr/share/licenses/pulseview/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/pulseview.1.gz

References

Summary

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