How To Install bitlbee on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bitlbee
on Fedora 34.
What is bitlbee
BitlBee is an IRC to other chat networks gateway. BitlBee can be used as an IRC server which forwards everything you say to people on other chat networks like XMPP/Jabber (including Google Talk and Hipchat) and Twitter microblogging network (and all other Twitter API compatible services like status.net). There are also plugins for facebook and steam, and even more protocols can be used via libpurple. bitlbee 3.6 4.fc34 x86_64 281 k bitlbee-3.6-4.fc34.src.rpm fedora IRC to other chat networks gateway https GPLv2+ and MIT BitlBee is an IRC to other chat networks gateway. BitlBee can be used as an IRC server which forwards everything you say to people on other chat networks like XMPP/Jabber (including Google Talk and Hipchat) and Twitter microblogging network (and all other Twitter API compatible services like status.net). There are also plugins for facebook and steam, and even more protocols can be used via libpurple.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install bitlbee
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bitlbee.
Install bitlbee on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bitlbee
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bitlbee
Install bitlbee on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bitlbee
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bitlbee
How To Uninstall bitlbee on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the bitlbee
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bitlbee
bitlbee Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/bitlbee
/etc/bitlbee/bitlbee.conf
/etc/bitlbee/motd.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/ba69faa8b936f2cab613d834f7bc7e835bb6f1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bitlbee.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bitlbee.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib64/bitlbee
/usr/sbin/bitlbee
/usr/share/bitlbee
/usr/share/bitlbee/help.txt
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/README
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/user-guide.html
/usr/share/licenses/bitlbee
/usr/share/licenses/bitlbee/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/bitlbee.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bitlbee.8.gz
/var/lib/bitlbee
/etc/bitlbee
/etc/bitlbee/bitlbee.conf
/etc/bitlbee/motd.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/75ea379962d48a5d24b857a8960efff6abb0d4
/usr/lib/bitlbee
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bitlbee.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bitlbee.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/bitlbee
/usr/share/bitlbee
/usr/share/bitlbee/help.txt
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/README
/usr/share/doc/bitlbee/user-guide.html
/usr/share/licenses/bitlbee
/usr/share/licenses/bitlbee/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/bitlbee.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bitlbee.8.gz
/var/lib/bitlbee
References
- [bitlbee website](https://www.bitlbee.org/ https://www.bitlbee.org/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bitlbee
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.