How To Install irssi-devel on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install irssi-devel on CentOS 8.
What is irssi-devel
This package contains headers needed to develop irssi plugins. 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. This package contains headers needed to develop irssi plugins. 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-devel on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install irssi-devel.
Install irssi-devel on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install irssi-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install irssi-devel
Install irssi-devel on CentOS 8 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 irssi-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install irssi-devel
How To Uninstall irssi-devel on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the irssi-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove irssi-devel
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install irssi-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.