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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install talk using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install talk
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install talk using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install talk
How To Uninstall talk on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the talk package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove talk
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install talk on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
