How To Install eggdrop on CentOS 8
eggdrop is World’s most popular Open Source IRC bot
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eggdrop on CentOS 8.
What is eggdrop
Eggdrop is the world’s most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use. It is extendable with Tcl scripts and/or C modules, has support for the big five IRC networks and is able to form botnets, share partylines and userfiles between bots.
We can use yum or dnf to install eggdrop on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install eggdrop.
Install eggdrop 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 eggdrop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install eggdrop
Install eggdrop 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 eggdrop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install eggdrop
How To Uninstall eggdrop on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the eggdrop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove eggdrop
eggdrop Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/eggdrop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/7c0840bee7943db07215cdf2aa78ad6b300487
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/833b47e4290f3d485a929d0e10ca284ddc8145
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/a6d2c683aa7707598c43cb5a6993bb5bda9037
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/3ec53d8a22da506e75988394c93629bb8e9832
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/d56497006dd587efa0a0e8ac19c1d7315e276c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/0bb289489f67f48ec9377dea83f31bfb49c05f
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/14645b1f6e4375eb77db9b4c900d3bc7d00176
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/aae81ce80febf99f9534f31b06b04bb78cdbaa
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/276caf89dead0dec86da1b58b0b9b4a7395c68
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/8aaea2546cb37129858ff2516db30350df620c
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/3fe074c93720caadd5a9ee72754f94db9f3b08
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/d3507c26edcc4c5bc6e4a708b44ed2ecb5f57b
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/fc64744fea3dc39d8b269702200f5de04e0e2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/06834889147516773676e6714271139d01faf6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/56dd103d10422697ac6a29ef9f9e9f55873b82
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/5762e4e22d1ba414d5c70a18e202fe9d89825c
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/a869d0895670631fa197f71e6a4900c34b9188
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/e0fb2ca3f1be49a2befa47e216cd2a60d9a7e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/cc9095fd277c9c5aa1704d7c7aca4412b5c9ac
/usr/lib64/eggdrop
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/assoc.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/blowfish.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/channels.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/compress.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/console.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/ctcp.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/dns.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/filesys.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/ident.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/irc.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/notes.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/pbkdf2.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/seen.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/server.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/share.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/transfer.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/twitch.so
/usr/lib64/eggdrop/uptime.so
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/ABOUT
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/BANS
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/BOTNET
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/BUG-REPORT
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/Changes1.9
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/FEATURES
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/FIRST-SCRIPT
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/IPV6
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/MODULES
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/PARTYLINE
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/PBKDF2
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/README
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/TEXT-SUBSTITUTIONS
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/TLS
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/TRICKS
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/TWITCH
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/USERS
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/WEIRD-MESSAGES
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/eggdrop-basic.conf
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/eggdrop.conf
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/agogo.css
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/ajax-loader.gif
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/basic.css
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/bgfooter.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/bgtop.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/comment-bright.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/comment-close.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/comment.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/doctools.js
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/documentation_options.js
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/down-pressed.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/down.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/eggdrop.css
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/eggman.png.gif
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/file.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/jquery-3.2.1.js
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/jquery.js
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/language_data.js
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/minus.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/plus.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/pygments.css
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/searchtools.js
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/sidebar.js
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/transparent.gif
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/underscore-1.3.1.js
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/underscore.js
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/up-pressed.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/up.png
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/_static/websupport.js
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/appendices
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/appendices/first-script.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/appendices/index.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/appendices/known-probs.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/appendices/text-sub.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/appendices/tricks.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/appendices/weird-msgs.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/assoc.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/blowfish.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/channels.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/compress.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/console.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/core.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/ctcp.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/dns.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/filesys.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/ident.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/index.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/irc.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/modules.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/notes.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/pbkdf2.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/seen.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/server.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/share.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/transfer.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/twitch.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/uptime.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/coreDocs/woobie.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/firstinstall
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/firstinstall/firstinstall.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/firstinstall/index.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/installAndSetup
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/installAndSetup/faq.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/installAndSetup/index.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/installAndSetup/install.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/installAndSetup/readme.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/about.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/bans.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/botnet.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/features.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/index.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/ipv6.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/partyline.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/patch.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/pbkdf2.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/tcl-commands.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/tls.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/twitch-tcl-commands.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/twitch.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/mainDocs/users.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/objects.inv
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/search.html
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/html/searchindex.js
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/CONTENTS
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/core.settings
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.assoc
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.blowfish
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.channels
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.compress
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.console
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.ctcp
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.dns
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.filesys
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.ident
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.irc
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.notes
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.seen
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.server
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.share
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.transfer
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.uptime
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/settings/mod.woobie
/usr/share/doc/eggdrop/tcl-commands.doc
/usr/share/eggdrop
/usr/share/eggdrop/help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/assoc.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/blowfish.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/chaninfo.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/channels.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/cmd_resolve.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/cmds1.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/cmds2.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/compress.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/console.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/core.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/ctcp.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/dns.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/filesys.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/ident.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/irc.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/msg
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/msg/irc.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/msg/notes.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/msg/seen.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/msg/userinfo.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/notes.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/seen.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/server.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/blowfish.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/channels.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/cmds1.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/compress.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/console.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/ctcp.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/dns.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/filesys.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/ident.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/irc.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/notes.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/server.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/share.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/set/transfer.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/share.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/transfer.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/uptime.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/help/userinfo.help
/usr/share/eggdrop/language
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/assoc.danish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/assoc.english.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/assoc.finnish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/assoc.french.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/assoc.german.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/assoc.italian.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/assoc.portuguese.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/console.danish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/console.english.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/console.finnish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/console.french.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/console.german.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/console.italian.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/console.portuguese.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/core.danish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/core.english.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/core.finnish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/core.french.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/core.german.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/core.italian.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/core.portuguese.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/filesys.danish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/filesys.english.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/filesys.finnish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/filesys.french.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/filesys.german.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/filesys.italian.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/notes.danish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/notes.english.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/notes.finnish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/notes.french.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/notes.german.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/notes.italian.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/notes.portuguese.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/transfer.danish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/transfer.english.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/transfer.finnish.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/transfer.french.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/transfer.german.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/transfer.italian.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/language/transfer.portuguese.lang
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/action.fix.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/alltools.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/autobotchk
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/botchk
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/cmd_resolve.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/compat.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/dccwhois.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/getops.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/klined.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/notes2.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/ques5.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/quotepong.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/sentinel.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/userinfo.tcl
/usr/share/eggdrop/scripts/weed
/usr/share/eggdrop/text
/usr/share/eggdrop/text/banner
/usr/share/eggdrop/text/motd
/usr/share/licenses/eggdrop
/usr/share/licenses/eggdrop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/eggdrop.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eggdrop on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.