How To Install picocom on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install picocom on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install picocom.
Install picocom 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 picocom using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install picocom
Install picocom 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 picocom using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install picocom
How To Uninstall picocom on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the picocom package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove picocom
picocom Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/run/lock/picocom
/usr/bin/picocom
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/c69f828067af57b20c55973f545dfd5e42535e
/usr/share/doc/picocom
/usr/share/doc/picocom/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/picocom/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/doc/picocom/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/picocom.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install picocom on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.