How To Install talk on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install talk
on CentOS 7.
What is talk
The talk package provides client programs for the Internet talk protocol, which allows you to chat with other users on different systems. Talk is a communication program which copies lines from one terminal to the terminal of another user. Install talk if you’d like to use talk for chatting with users on different systems.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install talk
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install talk.
Install talk on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install talk
using yum
by running the following command:
Install talk 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.
After updating yum database, We can install talk
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall talk on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the talk
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install talk
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.