How To Install purple-telegram on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-telegram on CentOS 8. purple-telegram is Libpurple protocol plugin for Telegram support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-telegram on CentOS 8.

What is purple-telegram

Adds support for Telegram IM to purple-based clients such as Pidgin.

We can use yum or dnf to install purple-telegram on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install purple-telegram.

Install purple-telegram on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install purple-telegram using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install purple-telegram

Install purple-telegram on CentOS 8 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-telegram using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install purple-telegram

How To Uninstall purple-telegram on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove purple-telegram

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-telegram on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.