How To Install finch.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install finch.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. finch.i686 is A text-based user interface for Pidgin

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install finch.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `finch.i686`

A text-based user interface for using libpurple. This can be run from a standard text console or from a terminal within X Windows. It uses ncurses and our homegrown gnt library for drawing windows and text.

We can use yum to install finch.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install finch.i686.

Install finch.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install finch.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install finch.i686

How To Uninstall finch.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the finch.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove finch.i686

finch.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/finch
/usr/lib/finch
/usr/lib/finch/gntclipboard.so
/usr/lib/finch/gntgf.so
/usr/lib/finch/gnthistory.so
/usr/lib/finch/gntlastlog.so
/usr/lib/finch/gnttinyurl.so
/usr/lib/finch/grouping.so
/usr/lib/gnt
/usr/lib/gnt/irssi.so
/usr/lib/gnt/s.so
/usr/lib/libgnt.so.0
/usr/lib/libgnt.so.0.8.10
/usr/share/man/man1/finch.1.gz

References

finch.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install finch.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.