How To Install ngircd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ngircd on Fedora 34.
What is ngircd
ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat (IRC), developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It’s written from scratch and is not based upon the original IRCd like many others.
We can use yum or dnf to install ngircd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ngircd.
Install ngircd 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 ngircd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ngircd
Install ngircd 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 ngircd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ngircd
How To Uninstall ngircd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ngircd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ngircd
ngircd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/ngircd.conf
/etc/ngircd.motd
/etc/pam.d/ngircd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/15e995d62cf8330adbe20cd0724f19a95897c9
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ngircd.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ngircd.conf
/usr/sbin/ngircd
/usr/share/doc/ngircd
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Bopm.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Capabilities.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Commands.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Contributing.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/FAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/HowToRelease.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Modes.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/PAM.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Platforms.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Protocol.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/README-AUX.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/README-BeOS.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/README-Interix.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/README.md
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/RFC.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/SSL.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/Services.txt
/usr/share/doc/ngircd/sample-ngircd.conf
/usr/share/licenses/ngircd
/usr/share/licenses/ngircd/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/ngircd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ngircd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ngircd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.