How To Install purple-discord on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-discord in Fedora 36. purple-discord is Discord plugin for libpurple

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-discord on Fedora 36.

What is `purple-discord`

Adds support for Discord to Pidgin, Adium, Finch and other libpurple based messengers.

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

Install purple-discord 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 purple-discord using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install purple-discord

Install purple-discord 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 purple-discord using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install purple-discord

How To Uninstall purple-discord on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the purple-discord package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove purple-discord

purple-discord Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/8fe927b08b4992d99b02e03ac60d804fca8f89
/usr/lib64/purple-2/libdiscord.so
/usr/share/doc/purple-discord
/usr/share/doc/purple-discord/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/purple-discord
/usr/share/licenses/purple-discord/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/purple-discord.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/purple-discord.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/purple-discord.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/purple-discord.mo

References

purple-discord website

Summary

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