How To Install emacs-common-riece on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-common-riece in Fedora 36. emacs-common-riece is Yet Another IRC Client for Emacs and XEmacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-common-riece on Fedora 36.

What is `emacs-common-riece`

Riece is an IRC client for Emacs. Riece provides the following features - Several IRC servers may be used at the same time. - Essential features can be built upon the extension framework (called “add-on”) capable of dependency tracking. - Installation is easy. Riece doesn’t depend on other packages. - Setup is easy. Automatically save/restore the configuration. - Riece uses separate windows to display users, channels, and dialogues. The user can select the window layout. - Step-by-step instructions (in info format) are included. - Mostly compliant with RFC 2812.

We can use yum or dnf to install emacs-common-riece on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-common-riece.

Install emacs-common-riece on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-common-riece using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install emacs-common-riece

Install emacs-common-riece on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-common-riece using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-common-riece

How To Uninstall emacs-common-riece on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the emacs-common-riece package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove emacs-common-riece

emacs-common-riece Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-riece
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-riece/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-riece/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-riece/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-riece/NEWS.ja
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-riece/README
/usr/share/doc/emacs-common-riece/README.ja
/usr/share/info/riece-en.info.gz
/usr/share/info/riece-ja.info.gz

References

emacs-common-riece website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-common-riece on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).