How To Install meanwhile on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install meanwhile on CentOS 7. meanwhile is Lotus Sametime Community Client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install meanwhile on CentOS 7.

What is meanwhile

The heart of the meanwhile Project is the meanwhile library, providing the basic Lotus Sametime session functionality along with the core services; Presence Awareness, Instant Messaging, Multi-user Conferencing, Preferences Storage, Identity Resolution, and File Transfer. The heart of the meanwhile Project is the meanwhile library, providing the basic Lotus Sametime session functionality along with the core services; Presence Awareness, Instant Messaging, Multi-user Conferencing, Preferences Storage, Identity Resolution, and File Transfer.

We can use yum or dnf to install meanwhile on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install meanwhile.

Install meanwhile on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install meanwhile

Install meanwhile 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.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install meanwhile

How To Uninstall meanwhile on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove meanwhile

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install meanwhile on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.