How To Install quassel on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel on Rocky Linux 8. quassel is A modern distributed IRC system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is quassel

Quassel IRC is a modern, distributed IRC client, meaning that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core – much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat, but graphical

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

Install quassel 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 quassel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install quassel

Install quassel 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 quassel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install quassel

How To Uninstall quassel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove quassel

quassel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/quassel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/1558dbbcc709814911f72dfefd554b7f78b50c
/usr/share/appdata/quassel.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/quassel.desktop

References

Summary

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