How To Install twirssi on Fedora 34

twirssi is An Irssi script to interact with Twitter

Introduction

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

What is twirssi

Twirssi allows you interact with Twitter and Identi.ca from Irssi. It can handle tweets and direct messages (DMs), and supports multiple accounts on either Twitter or Identi.ca.

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

Install twirssi 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 twirssi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install twirssi

Install twirssi 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 twirssi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install twirssi

How To Uninstall twirssi on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove twirssi

twirssi Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/doc/twirssi
/usr/share/doc/twirssi/README
/usr/share/doc/twirssi/gpl-2.0.txt
/usr/share/irssi/scripts/twirssi.pl

References

Summary

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