How To Install purple-facebook on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-facebook on CentOS 7.
What is purple-facebook
Purple Facebook implements the Facebook Messenger protocol for pidgin, finch, and libpurple. While the primary implementation is for purple3, this plugin is back-ported for purple2. This project is not affiliated with Facebook, Inc.
We can use yum or dnf to install purple-facebook on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install purple-facebook.
Install purple-facebook on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install purple-facebook using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install purple-facebook
Install purple-facebook 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 purple-facebook using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install purple-facebook
How To Uninstall purple-facebook on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the purple-facebook package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove purple-facebook
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-facebook on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
