How To Install talk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install talk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is talk.x86_64
The talk package provides client programs for the Internet talk protocol, which allows you to chat with other users on different systems. Talk is a communication program which copies lines from one terminal to the terminal of another user. Install talk if you’d like to use talk for chatting with users on different systems.
We can use yum to install talk.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.x86_64.
Install talk.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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install talk.x86_64
How To Uninstall talk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the talk.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove talk.x86_64
talk.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/talk
/usr/share/man/man1/talk.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install talk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.