How To Install irssi on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install irssi
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is irssi
Irssi is a modular IRC client with Perl scripting. Only text-mode frontend is currently supported. The GTK/GNOME frontend is no longer being maintained.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install irssi
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install irssi.
Install irssi on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install irssi
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install irssi
Install irssi on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install irssi
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install irssi
How To Uninstall irssi on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the irssi
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove irssi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install irssi
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.