How To Install setserial on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install setserial on CentOS 7. setserial is A utility for configuring serial ports

Introduction

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

What is setserial

Setserial is a basic system utility for displaying or setting serial port information. Setserial can reveal and allow you to alter the I/O port and IRQ that a particular serial device is using, and more.

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

Install setserial on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install setserial

Install setserial 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 setserial using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install setserial

How To Uninstall setserial on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove setserial

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Summary

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