How To Install bitlbee-facebook on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bitlbee-facebook on CentOS 8.
What is bitlbee-facebook
The Facebook protocol plugin for BitlBee. This plugin uses the Facebook Mobile API.
We can use yum or dnf to install bitlbee-facebook on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bitlbee-facebook.
Install bitlbee-facebook on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bitlbee-facebook using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bitlbee-facebook
Install bitlbee-facebook on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bitlbee-facebook using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bitlbee-facebook
How To Uninstall bitlbee-facebook on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bitlbee-facebook package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bitlbee-facebook
bitlbee-facebook Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/8b330c82061a8e3b30914035b1c027cecbb501
/usr/lib64/bitlbee/facebook.so
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee-facebook
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee-facebook/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee-facebook/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee-facebook/README
/usr/share/licenses/bitlbee-facebook
/usr/share/licenses/bitlbee-facebook/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bitlbee-facebook on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.