How To Install owfs-shell on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install owfs-shell in Fedora 36. owfs-shell is Light weight shell access to owserver and the 1-wire file-system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install owfs-shell on Fedora 36.

What is owfs-shell

owfs-shell is 5 small programs to easily access owserver (and thus the 1-wire system) from shell scripts. owdir, owread, owwrite, owget and owpresent.

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

Install owfs-shell 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 owfs-shell using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install owfs-shell

Install owfs-shell 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 owfs-shell using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install owfs-shell

How To Uninstall owfs-shell on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the owfs-shell package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove owfs-shell

owfs-shell Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/owdir
/usr/bin/owexist
/usr/bin/owget
/usr/bin/owpresent
/usr/bin/owread
/usr/bin/owusbprobe
/usr/bin/owwrite
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/7efb0fe5292421a150e9b13175c7ec6f7ca8f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/f6881e6d01c3dba614d6107c826d0b22740305
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/b1b795a2bfdaf707c1e998e2aa78f758e58a3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/44a857d5758f7bc48afb8b2dddb48f727f10f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/4ebc679971b93bae732e1d7db62e90c28c099a
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/15f8ad31a184990efa205f0341a85eb4dabfac
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/bc9edafca54a792006482307ae03217ab4a7cf
/usr/share/man/man1/owdir.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/owget.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/owpresent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/owread.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/owshell.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/owwrite.1.gz

References

Summary

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