How To Install hexchat on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hexchat
on CentOS 7.
What is hexchat
HexChat is an easy to use graphical IRC chat client for the X Window System. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install hexchat
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hexchat.
Install hexchat on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install hexchat
using yum
by running the following command:
Install hexchat 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.
After updating yum database, We can install hexchat
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall hexchat on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the hexchat
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hexchat
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.