How To Install picocom on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install picocom
on CentOS 7.
What is picocom
As its name suggests, [picocom] is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is, in principle, very much like minicom, only it’s “pico” instead of “mini”! It was designed to serve as a simple, manual, modem configuration, testing, and debugging tool. It has also served (quite well) as a low-tech “terminal-window” to allow operator intervention in PPP connection scripts (something like the ms-windows “open terminal window before / after dialing” feature). It could also prove useful in many other similar tasks. It is ideal for embedded systems since its memory footprint is minimal (less than 20K, when stripped).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install picocom
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install picocom.
Install picocom on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install picocom
using yum
by running the following command:
Install picocom 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.
After updating yum database, We can install picocom
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall picocom on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the picocom
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install picocom
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.