How To Install weechat on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat on Rocky Linux 8. weechat is Portable, fast, light and extensible IRC client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install weechat.

Install weechat 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 weechat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install weechat

Install weechat 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 weechat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install weechat

How To Uninstall weechat on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the weechat package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove weechat

weechat Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/weechat
/usr/bin/weechat-curses
/usr/bin/weechat-headless
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/c578cea4733b48f563bf9729ef217a9069101c
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/155046880c1bd655dcf01d1fbdc2a873211baf
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/f222ba4885cc0df945561630d3258da6de0b79
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/a19436baf70819e529082c487bdf50e7b719a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/378494c987a302202325d36d6aa4aec3a37987
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/b5da97501b4c2a0b386e586a642b761fbf0f22
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/318dd027fc57a49a9ce8cf29ee5eab3c93d413
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/334ebef83de0a0d03698f12b58f07fbe181954
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/62a41ba5f102c807146a7e899e8b8b665f31cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/3dfdcb1925f2c0d98f1b1d1a6e8c61ba214434
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/97d638cc96069ef0b2354d4cfae5b05d512ef2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/f5240b844547253f77115ff34e055f675b6855
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/0d8acb7c01692024766f0b2146b05f926bad47
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/e3f1e8addd0dbe25e98ab1435120552950f1f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/29e3a2d39388249e3f946cf06f266cf8127565
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/105af1fd95c601bbf9cd204de5ef6acc646fca
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/b12651f983a4ae35c15633f78d66a671cb030f
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/94b30283018753314b3e1961b0acaed47f826d
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/7a068a389c6f4c0ef5ec4a60fa9b4bbe6501bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/fec432279938c6a9053668193cb49cf4b13db2
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/c9caa0bdb38405672d0a53dc47dc03c9e0afbd
/usr/lib64/weechat
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/alias.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/buflist.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/charset.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/exec.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/fifo.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/fset.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/guile.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/irc.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/logger.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/lua.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/perl.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/python.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/relay.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/ruby.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/script.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/spell.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/tcl.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/trigger.so
/usr/lib64/weechat/plugins/xfer.so
/usr/share/applications/weechat.desktop
/usr/share/doc/weechat
/usr/share/doc/weechat/AUTHORS.adoc
/usr/share/doc/weechat/ChangeLog.adoc
/usr/share/doc/weechat/Contributing.adoc
/usr/share/doc/weechat/README.adoc
/usr/share/doc/weechat/ReleaseNotes.adoc
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/weechat.png
/usr/share/licenses/weechat
/usr/share/licenses/weechat/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/weechat.mo

References

weechat website

Summary

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