How To Install purple-sipe on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-sipe on Rocky Linux 8. purple-sipe is Libpurple protocol plugin to connect to MS Office Communicator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-sipe on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `purple-sipe`

A third-party plugin for the Pidgin multi-protocol instant messenger. It implements the extended version of SIP/SIMPLE used by various products * Skype for Business * Microsoft Office 365 * Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) * Microsoft Lync Server * Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS 2007/2007 R2) * Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS 2003/2005) This package provides the protocol plugin for libpurple clients.

We can use yum or dnf to install purple-sipe on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install purple-sipe.

Install purple-sipe 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 purple-sipe using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install purple-sipe

Install purple-sipe 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 purple-sipe using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install purple-sipe

How To Uninstall purple-sipe on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the purple-sipe package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove purple-sipe

purple-sipe Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/e14534f09cb08bb5ae35273520107204d0639a
/usr/lib64/purple-2/libsipe.so
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe/README
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/purple-sipe
/usr/share/licenses/purple-sipe/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_CA/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-sipe.mo

References

purple-sipe website

Summary

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