How To Install quassel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel on CentOS 8.
What is quassel
Quassel IRC is a modern, distributed IRC client, meaning that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core – much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat, but graphical
We can use yum or dnf to install quassel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quassel.
Install quassel 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 quassel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install quassel
Install quassel 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 quassel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install quassel
How To Uninstall quassel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the quassel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove quassel
quassel Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/quassel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/1558dbbcc709814911f72dfefd554b7f78b50c
/usr/share/appdata/quassel.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/quassel.desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.