How To Install talk on Fedora 34

talk is Talk client for one-on-one Internet chatting

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install talk on Fedora 34.

What is `talk`

The talk package provides client programs for the Internet talk protocol, which allows you to chat with other users on different systems. Talk is a communication program which copies lines from one terminal to the terminal of another user. Install talk if you’d like to use talk for chatting with users on different systems.

We can use yum or dnf to install talk on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install talk.

Install talk 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 talk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install talk

Install talk 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 talk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install talk

How To Uninstall talk on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove talk

talk Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/talk
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/c25966345ffc3d5bcf274feb1de136c52aec62
/usr/share/man/man1/talk.1.gz

References

talk website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install talk on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.