How To Install freedv on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install freedv in Fedora 36. freedv is FreeDV Digital Voice

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freedv on Fedora 36.

What is `freedv`

FreeDV is a GUI application for Windows and Linux that allows any SSB radio to be used for low bit rate digital voice. Speech is compressed down to 1400 bit/s then modulated onto a 1100 Hz wide QPSK signal which is sent to the Mic input of a SSB radio. On receive, the signal is received by the SSB radio, then demodulated and decoded by FreeDV. FreeDV was built by an international team of Radio Amateurs working together on coding, design, user interface and testing. FreeDV is open source software, released under the GNU Public License version 2.1. The FDMDV modem and Codec 2 Speech codec used in FreeDV are also open source.

We can use yum or dnf to install freedv on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freedv.

Install freedv on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install freedv using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freedv

Install freedv on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install freedv using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freedv

How To Uninstall freedv on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove freedv

freedv Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/freedv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/54643fdd8594798151c6f96a8421ac9d84c973
/usr/share/appdata/freedv.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/freedv.desktop
/usr/share/doc/freedv
/usr/share/doc/freedv/README.md
/usr/share/doc/freedv/USER_MANUAL.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/freedv.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/freedv.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/freedv.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/freedv.png
/usr/share/licenses/freedv
/usr/share/licenses/freedv/COPYING

References

freedv website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freedv on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).