How To Install fldigi on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install fldigi on CentOS 7. fldigi is Digital modem program for Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fldigi on CentOS 7.

What is fldigi

Fldigi is a modem program which supports most of the digital modes used by ham radio operators today. You can also use the program for calibrating your sound card to WWV or doing a frequency measurement test. The program also comes with a CW decoder. fldigi is written with the help of the Fast Light Toolkit X GUI. Fldigi is a fast moving project many added features with each update. Flarq (Fast Light Automatic Repeat Request) is a file transfer application that is based on the ARQ specification developed by Paul Schmidt, K9PS. It is capable of transmitting and receiving frames of ARQ data via fldigi.

We can use yum or dnf to install fldigi on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fldigi.

Install fldigi on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install fldigi

Install fldigi on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install fldigi

How To Uninstall fldigi on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove fldigi

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fldigi on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.