How To Install xchat on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xchat
on CentOS 7.
What is xchat
X-Chat is an easy to use graphical IRC chat client for the X Window System. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible. This includes the plugins to run the Perl and Python scripts.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install xchat
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xchat.
Install xchat on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install xchat
using yum
by running the following command:
Install xchat 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 xchat
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall xchat on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the xchat
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xchat
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.