Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ckermit on CentOS 8.
What is ckermit
C-Kermit is a combined serial and network communication software package offering a consistent, medium-independent, cross-platform approach to connection establishment, terminal sessions, file transfer and management, character-set translation, and automation of communication tasks.
We can use yum or dnf to install ckermit on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ckermit.
Install ckermit on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ckermit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ckermit
Install ckermit on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ckermit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ckermit
How To Uninstall ckermit on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ckermit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ckermit
ckermit Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/kermit
/etc/kermit/ckermit.ini
/etc/kermit/ckermit.local.ini
/etc/kermit/ckermit.locale.ini
/etc/kermit/ckermit.modem.ini
/etc/kermit/ckermit.phone
/usr/bin/kermit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/32d8cdfe240dceefb0223c3ef28021c979ea9f
/usr/share/doc/ckermit
/usr/share/doc/ckermit/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/ckermit/ckc302.txt
/usr/share/licenses/ckermit
/usr/share/licenses/ckermit/COPYING.TXT
/usr/share/man/man1/kermit.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ckermit on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
