How To Install purple-sipe.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-sipe.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. purple-sipe.x86_64 is Libpurple protocol plugin to connect to MS Office Communicator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-sipe.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `purple-sipe.x86_64`

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 Lync Server 2010 * Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS 2007/2007 R2) * Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS 2003/2005) * Reuters Messaging This package provides the protocol plugin for libpurple clients.

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

Install purple-sipe.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 purple-sipe.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install purple-sipe.x86_64

How To Uninstall purple-sipe.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the purple-sipe.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove purple-sipe.x86_64

purple-sipe.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/purple-2/libsipe.so
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe-1.20.1
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe-1.20.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe-1.20.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe-1.20.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe-1.20.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe-1.20.1/README
/usr/share/doc/purple-sipe-1.20.1/TODO
/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/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/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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