How To Install purple-matrix on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-matrix on CentOS 7. purple-matrix is Matrix plugin for libpurple

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-matrix on CentOS 7.

What is purple-matrix

Adds support for Matrix to Pidgin, Adium, Finch and other libpurple based messengers.

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

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

sudo yum -y install purple-matrix

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

sudo dnf -y install purple-matrix

How To Uninstall purple-matrix on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove purple-matrix

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Summary

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