How To Install setserial on Fedora 34

setserial is A utility for configuring serial ports

Introduction

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

What is `setserial`

Setserial is a basic system utility for displaying or setting serial port information. Setserial can reveal and allow you to alter the I/O port and IRQ that a particular serial device is using, and more.

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

Install setserial 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 setserial using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install setserial

Install setserial 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 setserial using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install setserial

How To Uninstall setserial on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove setserial

setserial Package Contents on Fedora 34

/bin/setserial
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/01239b82335b124fe8b3d8ad2fc6f40e018eec
/usr/share/doc/setserial
/usr/share/doc/setserial/README
/usr/share/doc/setserial/rc.serial
/usr/share/man/man8/setserial.8.gz

References

setserial website

Summary

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