How To Install purple-telegram on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install purple-telegram on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 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-telegram using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install purple-telegram

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

sudo yum -y install purple-telegram

How To Uninstall purple-telegram on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove purple-telegram

purple-telegram Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/7d90baec3e8fe24f20497cf64dc4cd80ddb741
/usr/lib64/purple-2/telegram-purple.so
/usr/share/doc/purple-telegram
/usr/share/doc/purple-telegram/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/purple-telegram/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/purple-telegram
/usr/share/licenses/purple-telegram/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs_CZ/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/telegram-purple.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/telegram-purple.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin
/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/telegram.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/22/telegram.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/48/telegram.png

References

Summary

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