How To Install supybot-meetbot on CentOS 8

supybot-meetbot is Plugin for Supybot for handling IRC meetings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install supybot-meetbot on CentOS 8.

What is supybot-meetbot

MeatBot is designed to assist in running meetings, taking notes, and so on. It is in pure python, as a plugin to supybot. However, there is a clear distinction between meeting-code and IRC-code, so it should be relatively easy to port to other bots. It is under the supybot license (3-clause BSD).

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

Install supybot-meetbot 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 supybot-meetbot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install supybot-meetbot

Install supybot-meetbot 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 supybot-meetbot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install supybot-meetbot

How To Uninstall supybot-meetbot on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the supybot-meetbot package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove supybot-meetbot

supybot-meetbot Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/config.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/config.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/items.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/items.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/meeting.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/meeting.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/plugin.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/supybotconfig.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/supybotconfig.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/test.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/test.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/writers.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/__pycache__/writers.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/css-log-default.css
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/css-minutes-default.css
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/items.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/meeting.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/plugin.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/supybotconfig.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/test.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/supybot/plugins/MeetBot/writers.py
/usr/share/doc/supybot-meetbot
/usr/share/doc/supybot-meetbot/Manual.txt
/usr/share/doc/supybot-meetbot/README.md
/usr/share/doc/supybot-meetbot/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/supybot-meetbot/meetingLocalConfig-example.py

References

Summary

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