How To Install purple-skypeweb on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-skypeweb in Fedora 36. purple-skypeweb is Adds support for Skype to Pidgin

Introduction

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

What is `purple-skypeweb`

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

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

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

sudo dnf -y install purple-skypeweb

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

sudo yum -y install purple-skypeweb

How To Uninstall purple-skypeweb on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove purple-skypeweb

purple-skypeweb Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/6a53a840b04cb0628d4924c258a1d4b970b954
/usr/lib64/purple-2/libskypeweb.so
/usr/share/doc/purple-skypeweb
/usr/share/doc/purple-skypeweb/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/purple-skypeweb
/usr/share/licenses/purple-skypeweb/gpl3.txt

References

purple-skypeweb website

Summary

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