How To Install serdisplib on Fedora 34

serdisplib is Library to drive serial displays with built-in controllers Library to drive serial displays with built-in controllers

Introduction

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

What is serdisplib

serdisplib started as a library to drive serial displays with built-in controllers. beginning with version 1.95 support was added for parallel driven displays. anyhow The serial in “serial display” characterizes the way of how the data is transferred to the display controller input line. several (few) other lines are controlling things like timing (clock), data or command, … serdisplib 1.97.9 20.fc34 x86_64 129 k serdisplib-1.97.9-20.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library to drive serial displays with built-in controllers http GPLv2+ serdisplib started as a library to drive serial displays with built-in controllers. beginning with version 1.95 support was added for parallel driven displays. anyhow The serial in “serial display” characterizes the way of how the data is transferred to the display controller input line. several (few) other lines are controlling things like timing (clock), data or command, …

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

Install serdisplib 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 serdisplib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install serdisplib

Install serdisplib 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 serdisplib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install serdisplib

How To Uninstall serdisplib on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove serdisplib

serdisplib Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/93142773d62d6691964f8955492e628feff00f
/usr/lib64/libserdisp.so.1
/usr/lib64/libserdisp.so.1.97
/usr/lib64/libserdisp.so.1.97.9
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/README
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/TODO
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css/fontbig.css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css/fontprint.css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css/fontsmall.css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css/fontstd.css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css/sd2.css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/docs
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/docs/index.html
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/93a40b3c907a1b95a7504a7d1699c1029c149c
/usr/lib/libserdisp.so.1
/usr/lib/libserdisp.so.1.97
/usr/lib/libserdisp.so.1.97.9
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/README
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/TODO
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css/fontbig.css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css/fontprint.css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css/fontsmall.css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css/fontstd.css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/css/sd2.css
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/docs
/usr/share/doc/serdisplib/doc/docs/index.html

References

Summary

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