How To Install finch on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install finch on Fedora 34.
What is finch
A text-based user interface for using libpurple. This can be run from a standard text console or from a terminal within X Windows. It uses ncurses and our homegrown gnt library for drawing windows and text.
We can use yum or dnf to install finch on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install finch.
Install finch 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 finch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install finch
Install finch 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 finch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install finch
How To Uninstall finch on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the finch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove finch
finch Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/finch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/4ec52f8e9ebec8f12b0ddb7f6c8d7df0e563ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/209fd5de4e99dde157a412fb3b2a1048171197
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/28839d44c6958337ac75136c64841b484c6299
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/554a52753b9ca242a587120e15fa7e54d06b13
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/717e321f6fe8ffecae5bfdc1b7e4c78e57d368
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/4197ce155201b3cc0695982579c5742415ee2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/f9bfa541855c81511a47aaa3ebb414e02fc16b
/usr/lib64/finch
/usr/lib64/finch/gntclipboard.so
/usr/lib64/finch/gntgf.so
/usr/lib64/finch/gnthistory.so
/usr/lib64/finch/gntlastlog.so
/usr/lib64/finch/gnttinyurl.so
/usr/lib64/finch/grouping.so
/usr/share/man/man1/finch.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install finch on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.