How To Install weechat on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat on CentOS 7. weechat is Portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client

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.