How To Install nec2c on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install nec2c in Fedora 36. nec2c is Translation of NEC2 antenna modeling tool from FORTRAN to C

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nec2c on Fedora 36.

What is nec2c

nec2c is a translation of the Numerical Electromagnetics Code (NEC2) from FORTRAN to C. Operationally nec2c differs from NEC2 by being a command line non-interactive program, taking as arguments the input file name and optionally the output file name.

We can use yum or dnf to install nec2c on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nec2c.

Install nec2c 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 nec2c using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nec2c

Install nec2c 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 nec2c using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nec2c

How To Uninstall nec2c on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the nec2c package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nec2c

nec2c Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/nec2c
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/4c542cea5339694bc0f30c2019e08e4bf1884d
/usr/share/doc/nec2c
/usr/share/doc/nec2c/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nec2c/NEC2-bug.txt
/usr/share/doc/nec2c/README
/usr/share/licenses/nec2c
/usr/share/licenses/nec2c/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/nec2c.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nec2c on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).