How To Install purple-hangouts on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-hangouts on Rocky Linux 8. purple-hangouts is Hangouts plugin for libpurple

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-hangouts on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install purple-hangouts.

Install purple-hangouts 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 purple-hangouts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install purple-hangouts

Install purple-hangouts 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 purple-hangouts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install purple-hangouts

How To Uninstall purple-hangouts on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the purple-hangouts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove purple-hangouts

purple-hangouts Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/0b5824b58f59b3d699491bb800632220f618f3
/usr/lib64/purple-2/libhangouts.so
/usr/share/doc/purple-hangouts
/usr/share/doc/purple-hangouts/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/purple-hangouts
/usr/share/licenses/purple-hangouts/gpl3.txt

References

purple-hangouts website

Summary

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