How To Install xwota on Fedora 34

xwota is Who’s On the Air Database interface

Introduction

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

What is xwota

Xwota is intended for amateur radio operators who want to make use of the WOTA database. It can be used to find out who is on the air, the band and frequency they are operating on, and their location by country, state, county, grid, and latitude/longitude It’s very similar to a DX Cluster client, but it works with the WOTA database and contains more informations. If you don’t known what is the WOTA database, please read some infos at http

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

Install xwota 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 xwota using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xwota

Install xwota 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 xwota using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xwota

How To Uninstall xwota on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xwota

xwota Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/xwota
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/42ce847ffceb90009345abbf2601d143a8d7bf
/usr/share/applications/xwota.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xwota
/usr/share/doc/xwota/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xwota/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xwota/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xwota/README
/usr/share/pixmaps/xwota.png
/usr/share/xwota
/usr/share/xwota/country.txt

References

Summary

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