How To Install neochat on Fedora 34

neochat is Client for matrix, the decentralized communication protocol

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install neochat on Fedora 34.

What is neochat

Neochat is a client for Matrix, the decentralized communication protocol for instant messaging. It is a fork of Spectral, using KDE frameworks, most notably Kirigami, KConfig and KI18n.

We can use yum or dnf to install neochat on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install neochat.

Install neochat on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install neochat

Install neochat on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install neochat

How To Uninstall neochat on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove neochat

neochat Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/neochat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/0673ba19c256af49862d5f660d8e3517a297cb
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.neochat.desktop
/usr/share/doc/neochat
/usr/share/doc/neochat/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/org.kde.neochat.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16@2/apps/org.kde.neochat.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16@3/apps/org.kde.neochat.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.kde.neochat.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.kde.neochat-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/knotifications5/neochat.notifyrc
/usr/share/licenses/neochat
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/BSD-2-Clause.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/CC0-1.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/GPL-2.0-only.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/GPL-2.0-or-later.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/GPL-3.0-only.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/LGPL-2.1-or-later.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/LGPL-3.0-only.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-LGPL.txt
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.neochat.appdata.xml
/usr/bin/neochat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/14723aebdfa58ba4b9fbc4083c08d1ec1ffb9c
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.neochat.desktop
/usr/share/doc/neochat
/usr/share/doc/neochat/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/org.kde.neochat.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16@2/apps/org.kde.neochat.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16@3/apps/org.kde.neochat.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.kde.neochat.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.kde.neochat-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/knotifications5/neochat.notifyrc
/usr/share/licenses/neochat
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/BSD-2-Clause.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/GPL-2.0-or-later.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/GPL-3.0-only.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
/usr/share/licenses/neochat/LicenseRef-KDE-Accepted-LGPL.txt
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/neochat.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.neochat.appdata.xml

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install neochat on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.