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

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-salut.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. telepathy-salut.x86_64 is Link-local XMPP telepathy connection manager

Introduction

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

What is `telepathy-salut.x86_64`

telepathy-salut is a Telepathy connection manager for link-local XMPP. Normally, XMPP does not support direct client-to-client interactions, since it requires authentication with a server. This package makes it is possible to establish an XMPP-like communications system on a local network using zero-configuration networking.

We can use yum to install telepathy-salut.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-salut.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install telepathy-salut.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove telepathy-salut.x86_64

telepathy-salut.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/telepathy
/usr/lib64/telepathy/salut-0
/usr/lib64/telepathy/salut-0/lib
/usr/lib64/telepathy/salut-0/lib/libsalut-plugins-0.8.1.so
/usr/lib64/telepathy/salut-0/lib/libsalut-plugins.so
/usr/lib64/telepathy/salut-0/lib/libwocky-telepathy-salut-0.8.1.so
/usr/lib64/telepathy/salut-0/lib/libwocky.so
/usr/libexec/telepathy-salut
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Telepathy.ConnectionManager.salut.service
/usr/share/doc/telepathy-salut-0.8.1
/usr/share/doc/telepathy-salut-0.8.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/telepathy-salut-0.8.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/telepathy-salut-0.8.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/telepathy-salut-0.8.1/README
/usr/share/doc/telepathy-salut-0.8.1/clique.xml
/usr/share/man/man8/telepathy-salut.8.gz
/usr/share/telepathy/managers/salut.manager

References

telepathy-salut.x86_64 website

Summary

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