How To Install meanwhile on CentOS 8

meanwhile is Lotus Sametime Community Client library Lotus Sametime Community Client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install meanwhile on CentOS 8.

What is meanwhile

The heart of the meanwhile Project is the meanwhile library, providing the basic Lotus Sametime session functionality along with the core services; Presence Awareness, Instant Messaging, Multi-user Conferencing, Preferences Storage, Identity Resolution, and File Transfer. meanwhile 1.1.0 23.el8 x86_64 103 k meanwhile-1.1.0-23.el8.src.rpm appstream Lotus Sametime Community Client library http LGPLv2+ The heart of the meanwhile Project is the meanwhile library, providing the basic Lotus Sametime session functionality along with the core services; Presence Awareness, Instant Messaging, Multi-user Conferencing, Preferences Storage, Identity Resolution, and File Transfer.

We can use yum or dnf to install meanwhile on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install meanwhile.

Install meanwhile 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 meanwhile using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install meanwhile

Install meanwhile 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 meanwhile using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install meanwhile

How To Uninstall meanwhile on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the meanwhile package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove meanwhile

meanwhile Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/d8260f20eb48e69c46c5e677710bfc705ffd2a
/usr/lib/libmeanwhile.so.1
/usr/lib/libmeanwhile.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/README
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/TODO
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/a78345bf7df042c73e67a23cb3ff583e569fcd
/usr/lib64/libmeanwhile.so.1
/usr/lib64/libmeanwhile.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/README
/usr/share/doc/meanwhile/TODO

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install meanwhile on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.