How To Install ngircd on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ngircd on CentOS 8.
What is ngircd
ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat (IRC), developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It’s written from scratch and is not based upon the original IRCd like many others.
We can use yum or dnf to install ngircd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ngircd.
Install ngircd 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 ngircd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ngircd
Install ngircd 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 ngircd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ngircd
How To Uninstall ngircd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ngircd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ngircd
ngircd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/ngircd.conf
/etc/ngircd.motd
/etc/pam.d/ngircd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/931f3c36c05f82702a9718e289ad42da7b23e3
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ngircd.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ngircd.conf
/usr/sbin/ngircd
/usr/share/doc/ngircd
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Bopm.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Capabilities.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Commands.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Contributing.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/HowToRelease.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Modes.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/PAM.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Platforms.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Protocol.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/README-AUX.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/README-BeOS.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/README-Interix.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/README.md
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/RFC.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/SSL.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Services.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/sample-ngircd.conf
/usr/share/licenses/ngircd
/usr/share/licenses/ngircd/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/ngircd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ngircd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ngircd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.