How To Install purple-hangouts on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-hangouts on CentOS 7.
What is purple-hangouts
Adds support for Hangouts to Pidgin, Adium, Finch and other libpurple based messengers.
We can use yum or dnf to install purple-hangouts on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install purple-hangouts.
Install purple-hangouts 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-hangouts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install purple-hangouts
Install purple-hangouts 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-hangouts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install purple-hangouts
How To Uninstall purple-hangouts on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the purple-hangouts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove purple-hangouts
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-hangouts on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
