How To Install pidgin-privacy-please on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install pidgin-privacy-please in Fedora 36. pidgin-privacy-please is Security and Privacy plugin for Pidgin

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pidgin-privacy-please on Fedora 36.

What is `pidgin-privacy-please`

pidgin-privacy-please is a Pidgin plugin to stop spammers from annoying you. It offers the following features - Block individual users - Auto-reply to blocked messages - Block messages from people who are not on your contact list (with an optional auto-reply) - Block messages using regular expressions, either against the message sender, the message content, or both - Suppress repeated/all authorization requests - Suppress OSCAR (ICQ/AIM) authorization requests - Automatically show user info on authorization requests - Block jabber headline messages (eg. alerts from the MSN transport) - Block AOL system messages - Challenge-response bot-check

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

Install pidgin-privacy-please 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 pidgin-privacy-please using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pidgin-privacy-please

Install pidgin-privacy-please 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 pidgin-privacy-please using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pidgin-privacy-please

How To Uninstall pidgin-privacy-please on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the pidgin-privacy-please package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pidgin-privacy-please

pidgin-privacy-please Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/626382dfcf4bdc9e54e70cd3bef1ce0c11d452
/usr/lib64/pidgin/libpidgin_pp.so
/usr/share/doc/pidgin-privacy-please
/usr/share/doc/pidgin-privacy-please/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pidgin-privacy-please/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pidgin-privacy-please/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pidgin-privacy-please/README
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-privacy-please.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-privacy-please.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pidgin-privacy-please.mo

References

pidgin-privacy-please website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pidgin-privacy-please on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).