How To Install libotr on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libotr
on CentOS 7.
What is libotr
Off-the-Record Messaging Library and Toolkit This is a library and toolkit which implements Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging. OTR allows you to have private conversations over IM by providing Encryption, Authentication, Deniability and Perfect forward secrecy.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libotr
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libotr.
Install libotr on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libotr
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libotr 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 libotr
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libotr on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libotr
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libotr
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.