Information about the package, picocom, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The picocom package is designed for, Minimal serial communications program.
Package Name:
picocom
Summary:
Minimal serial communications program
Description:
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).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.2
Release:
2.el6
Size:
45 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the picocom package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install picocom
This command will install picocom on the server.
yum remove picocom
This command will un-install picocom on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove picocom, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove picocom
This command will un-install picocom on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove picocom when using the -y flag.
yum update picocom
This command will update picocom to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove picocom, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update picocom
This command will update picocom to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove picocom when using the -y flag.
yum info picocom
This command will show you core information about the picocom package.
yum deplist picocom
This command will show you the dependencies for picocom. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update picocom
This command will check if there is an update waiting on picocom. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.