How To Install qodem on Fedora 34

qodem is Terminal emulator and communications package

Introduction

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

What is qodem

Qodem is an open-source re-implementation of the Qmodem(tm) shareware communications package, updated for more modern uses. Major features include * Unicode display Special Graphics characters, VT220 National Replacement Character sets, etc., to Unicode * Terminal interface conveniences file, screen dump, dialing directory, keyboard macros, script support * Connection methods ssh, rlogin, rsh * Emulations VT100/102, VT220, Linux, and XTerm * Transfer protocols

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

Install qodem 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 qodem using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qodem

Install qodem 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 qodem using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qodem

How To Uninstall qodem on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove qodem

qodem Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/qodem-x11
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/9f4240ec115fefb417f615a9677b82a21cd0b4
/usr/share/applications/qodem.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qodem
/usr/share/doc/qodem/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/qodem/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/qodem/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/qodem.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/qodem.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/a
/usr/share/licenses/qodem
/usr/share/licenses/qodem/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/qodem-x11.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/qodem.appdata.xml

References

Summary

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