How To Install weechat on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat on CentOS 7.
What is weechat
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable and extensible with scripts.
We can use yum or dnf to install weechat on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install weechat.
Install weechat on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install weechat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install weechat
Install weechat 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 weechat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install weechat
How To Uninstall weechat on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the weechat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove weechat
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.