mmcli command not found – CentOS 8

ModemManager package might not the installed on your server. Do the below steps to install ModemManager on your CentOS server.

1. Log into your centos 8 server via SSH as root user

2. Run the command ‘rpm -qa | grep ModemManager’ to check whether ModemManager package is installed

3. Install ModemManager package using yum : ‘yum install ModemManager’

4. Enter ‘y’ and press enter if yum asks for confirmation while installing

4. Run the below command to verify

# ModemManager -h    
Usage:
  ModemManager [OPTION?]

You can install ‘ModemManager’ package either using yum or by downloading the rpm package from the CentOS website.

On CentOS 8 server, go to /usr/local/src directory:

cd /usr/local/src

Download ModemManager package using wget command :

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/ModemManager-1.10.8-2.el8.x86_64.rpm

Install the package using rpm command :

rpm -Uvh ModemManager-1.10.8-2.el8.x86_64.rpm

 

# yum install ModemManager

Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Installing:
ModemManager x86_64 1.10.8-2.el8 BaseOS 923 k
Installing dependencies:
ModemManager-glib x86_64 1.10.8-2.el8 BaseOS 263 k
libgudev x86_64 232-4.el8 BaseOS 33 k
libmbim x86_64 1.20.2-1.el8 BaseOS 114 k
libmbim-utils x86_64 1.20.2-1.el8 BaseOS 48 k
libqmi x86_64 1.24.0-1.el8 BaseOS 568 k
libqmi-utils x86_64 1.24.0-1.el8 BaseOS 184 k

Transaction Summary
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Install 7 Packages

Total download size: 2.1 M
Installed size: 8.7 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y