How To Install eggdrop on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eggdrop on CentOS 7.
What is eggdrop
Eggdrop is the world’s most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use. It is extendable with Tcl scripts and/or C modules, has support for the big five IRC networks and is able to form botnets, share partylines and userfiles between bots.
We can use yum or dnf to install eggdrop on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install eggdrop.
Install eggdrop on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install eggdrop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install eggdrop
Install eggdrop on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install eggdrop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install eggdrop
How To Uninstall eggdrop on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the eggdrop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove eggdrop
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eggdrop on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
