How To Install weechat on CentOS 8

weechat is Portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client

Introduction

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

What is `weechat`

WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable and extensible with scripts.

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

Install weechat 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 weechat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install weechat

Install weechat 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 weechat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install weechat

How To Uninstall weechat on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove weechat

weechat Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/weechat
/usr/bin/weechat-curses
/usr/bin/weechat-headless
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/c578cea4733b48f563bf9729ef217a9069101c
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/155046880c1bd655dcf01d1fbdc2a873211baf
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/f222ba4885cc0df945561630d3258da6de0b79
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/a19436baf70819e529082c487bdf50e7b719a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/378494c987a302202325d36d6aa4aec3a37987
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/b5da97501b4c2a0b386e586a642b761fbf0f22
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/318dd027fc57a49a9ce8cf29ee5eab3c93d413
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/334ebef83de0a0d03698f12b58f07fbe181954
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/62a41ba5f102c807146a7e899e8b8b665f31cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/3dfdcb1925f2c0d98f1b1d1a6e8c61ba214434
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/97d638cc96069ef0b2354d4cfae5b05d512ef2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/f5240b844547253f77115ff34e055f675b6855
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/0d8acb7c01692024766f0b2146b05f926bad47
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/e3f1e8addd0dbe25e98ab1435120552950f1f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/29e3a2d39388249e3f946cf06f266cf8127565
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/105af1fd95c601bbf9cd204de5ef6acc646fca
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/b12651f983a4ae35c15633f78d66a671cb030f
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/94b30283018753314b3e1961b0acaed47f826d
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/7a068a389c6f4c0ef5ec4a60fa9b4bbe6501bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/fec432279938c6a9053668193cb49cf4b13db2
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/c9caa0bdb38405672d0a53dc47dc03c9e0afbd
/usr/lib64/weechat
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/alias.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/buflist.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/charset.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/exec.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/fifo.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/fset.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/guile.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/irc.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/logger.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/lua.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/perl.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/python.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/relay.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/ruby.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/script.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/spell.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/tcl.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/trigger.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/xfer.so
/usr/share/applications/weechat.desktop
/usr/share/doc/weechat
/usr/share/doc/weechat/AUTHORS.adoc
/usr/share/doc/weechat/ChangeLog.adoc
/usr/share/doc/weechat/Contributing.adoc
/usr/share/doc/weechat/README.adoc
/usr/share/doc/weechat/ReleaseNotes.adoc
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/licenses/weechat
/usr/share/licenses/weechat/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo

References

weechat website

Summary

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