How To Install restmbmaster on Fedora 34

restmbmaster is Rest API gateway to Modbus slaves

Introduction

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

What is restmbmaster

This package contains a tool called restmbmaster which is a simple daemon that allows user to access Modbus slaves over Rest API. The slaves could be either connected over serial line (Modbus RTU protocol), or over TCP (Modbus TCP protocol).

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

Install restmbmaster 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 restmbmaster using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install restmbmaster

Install restmbmaster 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 restmbmaster using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install restmbmaster

How To Uninstall restmbmaster on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove restmbmaster

restmbmaster Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/restmbmaster
/usr/bin/restmbmaster
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/ee20879ed7aecbb165d35c41359b367bb2d4b8
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/restmbmaster
/usr/share/doc/restmbmaster/example_configs
/usr/share/doc/restmbmaster/example_configs/sample_rtu.conf
/usr/share/doc/restmbmaster/example_configs/sample_tcp.conf
/usr/share/licenses/restmbmaster
/usr/share/licenses/restmbmaster/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/restmbmaster.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/restmbmaster.8.gz
/etc/restmbmaster
/usr/bin/restmbmaster
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/0ac2473655895d95d8987d8aa856c2cd6331b7
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/restmbmaster
/usr/share/doc/restmbmaster/example_configs
/usr/share/doc/restmbmaster/example_configs/sample_rtu.conf
/usr/share/doc/restmbmaster/example_configs/sample_tcp.conf
/usr/share/licenses/restmbmaster
/usr/share/licenses/restmbmaster/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/restmbmaster.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/restmbmaster.8.gz

References

Summary

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