How To Install loudmouth on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install loudmouth on Rocky Linux 8. loudmouth is XMPP/Jabber C programming library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install loudmouth on Rocky Linux 8.

What is loudmouth

Loudmouth is a lightweight and easy-to-use C library for programming with the XMPP/Jabber protocol. It’s designed to be easy to get started with and yet extensible to let you do anything the XMPP protocol allows.

We can use yum or dnf to install loudmouth on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install loudmouth.

Install loudmouth on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install loudmouth using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install loudmouth

Install loudmouth on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install loudmouth using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install loudmouth

How To Uninstall loudmouth on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the loudmouth package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove loudmouth

loudmouth Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/a6efeb7948ce371c8deb405c2f3f8695b4eb8e
/usr/lib64/libloudmouth-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libloudmouth-1.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/loudmouth
/usr/share/doc/loudmouth/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/loudmouth/README
/usr/share/licenses/loudmouth
/usr/share/licenses/loudmouth/COPYING

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install loudmouth on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.