How To Install talk-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install talk-server.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. talk-server.x86_64 is The talk server for one-on-one Internet chatting

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install talk-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `talk-server.x86_64`

The talk-server package provides daemon programs for the Internet talk protocol, which allows you to chat with other users on different machines. Talk is a communication program which copies lines from one terminal to the terminal of another user.

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

Install talk-server.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 talk-server.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install talk-server.x86_64

How To Uninstall talk-server.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the talk-server.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove talk-server.x86_64

talk-server.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntalk.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntalk.socket
/usr/sbin/in.ntalkd
/usr/sbin/in.talkd
/usr/share/man/man8/in.ntalkd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/in.talkd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntalkd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/talkd.8.gz

References

talk-server.x86_64 website

Summary

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