How To Install purple-libsteam on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-libsteam in Fedora 36. purple-libsteam is Steam plugin for Pidgin/Adium/libpurple

Introduction

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

What is `purple-libsteam`

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

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

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

sudo dnf -y install purple-libsteam

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

sudo yum -y install purple-libsteam

How To Uninstall purple-libsteam on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove purple-libsteam

purple-libsteam Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/c0df872ba6e0ae7a883c01f215e2187a334707
/usr/lib64/purple-2/libsteam.so
/usr/share/doc/purple-libsteam
/usr/share/doc/purple-libsteam/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/purple-libsteam
/usr/share/licenses/purple-libsteam/LICENSE

References

purple-libsteam website

Summary

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