How To Install ssh-contact on Fedora 36

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ssh-contact on Fedora 36.

What is ssh-contact

ssh-contact is a client/service tool that makes it easy to connect to your telepathy IM contacts via SSH. No need to care about dynamic IP, NAT, port forwarding, or firewalls anymore; if you can chat with a friend, you can also SSH to their machine.

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

Install ssh-contact 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 ssh-contact using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ssh-contact

Install ssh-contact 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 ssh-contact using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ssh-contact

How To Uninstall ssh-contact on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ssh-contact package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ssh-contact

ssh-contact Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/ssh-contact
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/3e7bd8615f5bd1e2abce5f6b15c7f4ab856a30
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/9a8fb5a5674bdc09ba5143cdc4dc1cdb2e481a
/usr/libexec/ssh-contact-service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.SSHContact.service
/usr/share/doc/ssh-contact
/usr/share/doc/ssh-contact/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ssh-contact/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ssh-contact/NEWS
/usr/share/telepathy/clients/SSHContact.client

References

• ssh-contact website

Summary

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