How To Install sidc on Fedora 34

sidc is A VLF signal monitor for recording sudden ionospheric disturbances

Introduction

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

What is sidc

sidc is a simple C program to monitor and record VLF signal for sudden ionospheric disturbance detection.

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

Install sidc 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 sidc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sidc

Install sidc 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 sidc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sidc

How To Uninstall sidc on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sidc

sidc Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/logrotate.d/sidc
/etc/sidc.conf
/etc/sysconfig/sidc
/run/sidc
/usr/bin/sidc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/3b4e0694dde9b5e00951e1be75132bcd6f459f
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sidc.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sidc.conf
/usr/share/doc/sidc
/usr/share/doc/sidc/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sidc/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/sidc/README.rst
/var/lib/sidc
/var/log/sidc

References

Summary

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