How To Install finch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install finch.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. finch.x86_64 is A text-based user interface for Pidgin

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install finch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `finch.x86_64`

A text-based user interface for using libpurple. This can be run from a standard text console or from a terminal within X Windows. It uses ncurses and our homegrown gnt library for drawing windows and text.

We can use yum to install finch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install finch.x86_64.

Install finch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install finch.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install finch.x86_64

How To Uninstall finch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the finch.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove finch.x86_64

finch.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/finch
/usr/lib64/finch
/usr/lib64/finch/gntclipboard.so
/usr/lib64/finch/gntgf.so
/usr/lib64/finch/gnthistory.so
/usr/lib64/finch/gntlastlog.so
/usr/lib64/finch/gnttinyurl.so
/usr/lib64/finch/grouping.so
/usr/lib64/gnt
/usr/lib64/gnt/irssi.so
/usr/lib64/gnt/s.so
/usr/lib64/libgnt.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgnt.so.0.8.10
/usr/share/man/man1/finch.1.gz

References

finch.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install finch.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.