How To Install talk-server on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install talk-server in Fedora 36. talk-server is The talk server for one-on-one Internet chatting

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install talk-server on Fedora 36.

What is `talk-server`

The talk-server package provides daemon programs for the Internet talk protocol, which allows you to chat with other users on different machines. Talk is a communication program which copies lines from one terminal to the terminal of another user.

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

Install talk-server 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 talk-server using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install talk-server

Install talk-server 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 talk-server using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install talk-server

How To Uninstall talk-server on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the talk-server package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove talk-server

talk-server Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/e1aa6a0c6ae0c6cc761b340b873a51c212c7ae
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntalk.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntalk.socket
/usr/sbin/in.ntalkd
/usr/sbin/in.talkd
/usr/share/man/man8/in.ntalkd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/in.talkd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ntalkd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/talkd.8.gz

References

talk-server website

Summary

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