How To Install spi-tools on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install spi-tools in Fedora 36. spi-tools is Simple command line tools to help using Linux spidev devices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spi-tools on Fedora 36.

What is `spi-tools`

This package contains spi-config and spi-pipe, simple command line tools to help using Linux spidev devices.

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

Install spi-tools 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 spi-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spi-tools

Install spi-tools 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 spi-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spi-tools

How To Uninstall spi-tools on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the spi-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove spi-tools

spi-tools Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/spi-config
/usr/bin/spi-pipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/78826ecb47ab47c7c2586623e19fc63f3549ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/5ac8f75b7ed20dbddc2b8a42f41b26993c4b0f
/usr/share/doc/spi-tools
/usr/share/doc/spi-tools/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/spi-tools
/usr/share/licenses/spi-tools/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/spi-config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/spi-pipe.1.gz

References

spi-tools website

Summary

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