How To Install uucp on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install uucp in Fedora 36. uucp is A set of utilities for operations between systems

Introduction

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

What is `uucp`

The uucp command copies files between systems. Uucp is primarily used by remote machines downloading and uploading email and news files to local machines.

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

Install uucp 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 uucp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install uucp

Install uucp 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 uucp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install uucp

How To Uninstall uucp on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove uucp

uucp Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/logrotate.d/uucp
/etc/uucp
/etc/uucp/call
/etc/uucp/dial
/etc/uucp/dialcode
/etc/uucp/oldconfig
/etc/uucp/passwd
/etc/uucp/port
/etc/uucp/sys
/usr/bin/uucp
/usr/bin/uulog
/usr/bin/uuname
/usr/bin/uupick
/usr/bin/uustat
/usr/bin/uuto
/usr/bin/uux
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/22fe0bbc3e0bdeab3e8f9efe18903c22a4237a
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/7b30ec26158d56e14f2b0bce998efe032e7f4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/6dde6df8d16460a9833440ef5323f41ae4d727
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/2c2bb51cf2793fc849ea312c38ad8133eb8764
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/2a943951eb4a1e605653ab41ab4f9be47c1a3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/2a6c8bd581f93c6babb5fa3c41ea1084566f38
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/abe0be7e7d01f7f40f3862b8de38d6322df2a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/2c63d4548ff0479390c9569670c09d96921553
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/f3a09449ad7cbda9a42353d86424a17922b526
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/06d563d4d7ca1976b98e555f1e4c638d07d099
/usr/lib/systemd/system/uucp.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/uucp.conf
/usr/lib64/uucp
/usr/lib64/uucp/uucico
/usr/sbin/uuchk
/usr/sbin/uucico
/usr/sbin/uuconv
/usr/sbin/uusched
/usr/sbin/uuxqt
/usr/share/doc/uucp
/usr/share/doc/uucp/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/uucp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/uucp/README
/usr/share/doc/uucp/TODO
/usr/share/doc/uucp/sample
/usr/share/doc/uucp/sample/call
/usr/share/doc/uucp/sample/config
/usr/share/doc/uucp/sample/dial
/usr/share/doc/uucp/sample/dialcode
/usr/share/doc/uucp/sample/passwd
/usr/share/doc/uucp/sample/port
/usr/share/doc/uucp/sample/sys1
/usr/share/doc/uucp/sample/sys2
/usr/share/doc/uucp/uucp.html
/usr/share/info/uucp.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/uucp.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/uucp.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/uucp.info-4.gz
/usr/share/info/uucp.info-5.gz
/usr/share/info/uucp.info-6.gz
/usr/share/info/uucp.info-7.gz
/usr/share/info/uucp.info-8.gz
/usr/share/info/uucp.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/uucp
/usr/share/licenses/uucp/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/uucp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/uuname.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/uustat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/uux.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/uucico.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/uuxqt.8.gz
/usr/share/uucp
/usr/share/uucp/contrib
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/Dial.Hayes
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/Hangup.Hayes
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/Login.LAT
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/Login.PortSel
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/Login.VMS
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/Makefile.uurt
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/Makefile.xchat
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/README
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/README-UURATE
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/README-XCHAT
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/Ringback.Hayes
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/amiga.c
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/dialHDB.c
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/savelog.man
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/savelog.sh
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/stats.sh
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/tstout.c
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uuclean
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uucomp.shar
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uudemon.shar
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uupoll.shar
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uuq.sh
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uurate.c
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uurate.man
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uureroute.perl
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uusnap.c
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uutraf
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uutry
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/uuxconv
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/xc-conf.h-dist
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/xchat.c
/usr/share/uucp/contrib/xchat.man
/var/lock/uucp
/var/log/uucp
/var/log/uucp/Debug
/var/log/uucp/Log
/var/log/uucp/Stats
/var/spool/uucp
/var/spool/uucppublic

References

uucp website

Summary

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