How To Install fldigi on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fldigi on Rocky Linux 8. fldigi is Digital modem program for Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fldigi on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fldigi.

Install fldigi on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install fldigi

Install fldigi on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install fldigi

How To Uninstall fldigi on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove fldigi

fldigi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/flarq
/usr/bin/fldigi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/8dc325c81ff7f9020668eb8a3c159f98da0d38
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/c8c244b43aea929f5eb6b3a107c9b0730333f2
/usr/share/applications/flarq.desktop
/usr/share/applications/fldigi.desktop
/usr/share/doc/fldigi
/usr/share/doc/fldigi/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fldigi/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fldigi/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fldigi/README
/usr/share/fldigi
/usr/share/fldigi/NAVTEX_Stations.csv
/usr/share/fldigi/ToR-Stats-SHIP.csv
/usr/share/fldigi/nsd_bbsss.txt
/usr/share/fldigi/station_table.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/fldigi.png
/usr/share/licenses/fldigi
/usr/share/licenses/fldigi/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/fldigi.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/flarq.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fldigi.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/flarq.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/fldigi.xpm

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fldigi on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.