How To Install kalibrate-rtl on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kalibrate-rtl on CentOS 7.

What is kalibrate-rtl

Kalibrate, or kal, can scan for GSM base stations in a given frequency band and can use those GSM base stations to calculate the local oscillator frequency offset.

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

Install kalibrate-rtl on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install kalibrate-rtl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kalibrate-rtl

Install kalibrate-rtl 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 kalibrate-rtl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kalibrate-rtl

How To Uninstall kalibrate-rtl on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the kalibrate-rtl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kalibrate-rtl

References

• kalibrate-rtl website

Summary

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