Information about the package, libpurple, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libpurple package is designed for, libpurple library for IM clients like Pidgin and Finch.
Package Name:
libpurple
Summary:
libpurple library for IM clients like Pidgin and Finch
URL:
Description:
libpurple contains the core IM support for IM clients such as Pidgin and Finch. libpurple supports a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.7.9
Release:
28.el6
Size:
6.2 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ and GPLv2 and MIT
Control the libpurple package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libpurple
This command will install libpurple on the server.
yum remove libpurple
This command will un-install libpurple on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpurple, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libpurple
This command will un-install libpurple on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libpurple when using the -y flag.
yum update libpurple
This command will update libpurple to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpurple, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libpurple
This command will update libpurple to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libpurple when using the -y flag.
yum info libpurple
This command will show you core information about the libpurple package.
yum deplist libpurple
This command will show you the dependencies for libpurple. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update libpurple
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libpurple. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.