How To Install setserial on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install setserial on Rocky Linux 8. setserial is A utility for configuring serial ports

Introduction

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

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

Install setserial 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 setserial using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install setserial

Install setserial 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 setserial using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install setserial

How To Uninstall setserial on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove setserial

setserial Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/bin/setserial
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/273e9877147b5fbac8ea31d1946c3d3e350fa5
/usr/share/doc/setserial
/usr/share/doc/setserial/README
/usr/share/doc/setserial/rc.serial
/usr/share/man/man8/setserial.8.gz

References

Summary

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