How To Install prosody on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prosody on AlmaLinux 8.
What is prosody
Prosody is a flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP written in Lua. It aims to be easy to use, and light on resources. For developers it aims to be easy to extend and give a flexible system on which to rapidly develop added functionality, or prototype new protocols.
We can use yum or dnf to install prosody on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install prosody.
Install prosody 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 prosody using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install prosody
Install prosody 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 prosody using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install prosody
How To Uninstall prosody on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the prosody package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove prosody
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prosody on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
