How To Install purple-mattermost on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-mattermost on CentOS 7. purple-mattermost is Pidgin protocol plugin to connect to Mattermost

Introduction

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

What is purple-mattermost

A third-party plugin for the Pidgin multi-protocol instant messenger. It connects libpurple-based instant messaging clients with Mattermost server. This package provides the protocol plugin for libpurple clients.

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

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

sudo yum -y install purple-mattermost

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

sudo dnf -y install purple-mattermost

How To Uninstall purple-mattermost on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove purple-mattermost

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Summary

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