How To Install telepathy-haze.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-haze.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. telepathy-haze.x86_64 is A multi-protocol Libpurple connection manager for Telepathy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-haze.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `telepathy-haze.x86_64`

telepathy-haze is a connection manager built around libpurple, the core of Pidgin (formerly Gaim), as a Summer of Code project under the Pidgin umbrella. Ultimately, any protocol supported by libpurple will be supported by telepathy-haze; for now, XMPP, MSN and AIM are known to work acceptably, and others will probably work too.

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

Install telepathy-haze.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 telepathy-haze.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install telepathy-haze.x86_64

How To Uninstall telepathy-haze.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the telepathy-haze.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove telepathy-haze.x86_64

telepathy-haze.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/libexec/telepathy-haze
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Telepathy.ConnectionManager.haze.service
/usr/share/doc/telepathy-haze-0.8.0
/usr/share/doc/telepathy-haze-0.8.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/telepathy-haze-0.8.0/NEWS
/usr/share/man/man8/telepathy-haze.8.gz

References

telepathy-haze.x86_64 website

Summary

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