How To Install finch on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install finch on CentOS 7.
What is finch
A text-based user interface for using libpurple. This can be run from a standard text console or from a terminal within X Windows. It uses ncurses and our homegrown gnt library for drawing windows and text. A text-based user interface for using libpurple. This can be run from a standard text console or from a terminal within X Windows. It uses ncurses and our homegrown gnt library for drawing windows and text.
We can use yum or dnf to install finch on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install finch.
Install finch on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install finch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install finch
Install finch 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 finch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install finch
How To Uninstall finch on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the finch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove finch
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install finch on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
