How To Install folks on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install folks on CentOS 7.
What is folks
libfolks is a library that aggregates people from multiple sources (e.g. Telepathy connection managers and eventually evolution data server, Facebook, etc.) to create meta-contacts. libfolks is a library that aggregates people from multiple sources (e.g. Telepathy connection managers and eventually evolution data server, Facebook, etc.) to create meta-contacts.
We can use yum or dnf to install folks on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install folks.
Install folks on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install folks using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install folks
Install folks 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 folks using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install folks
How To Uninstall folks on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the folks package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove folks
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install folks on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
