How To Install smuxi-frontend-stfl on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install smuxi-frontend-stfl

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install smuxi-frontend-stfl

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is smuxi-frontend-stfl and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install smuxi-frontend-stfl on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install smuxi-frontend-stfl on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install smuxi-frontend-stfl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install smuxi-frontend-stfl

Install smuxi-frontend-stfl on Fedora 34 using yum

Because smuxi-frontend-stfl is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install smuxi-frontend-stfl package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install smuxi-frontend-stfl

How to upgrade (update) a single package smuxi-frontend-stfl using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like smuxi-frontend-stfl in this example you should use the following command:

yum update smuxi-frontend-stfl

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade smuxi-frontend-stfl

How to Upgrade smuxi-frontend-stfl on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update smuxi-frontend-stfl

How To remove smuxi-frontend-stfl from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the smuxi-frontend-stfl package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove smuxi-frontend-stfl

Extra info and code examples

Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop. Smuxi is based on the client-server model: The core application (engine) can be placed onto a server which is connected to the Internet around-the-clock; one or more frontends then connect to the core. This way, the connection to IRC can be kept up even when all frontends have been closed. The combination of screen and irssi served as example for this architecture. Smuxi also supports the regular single application mode. This behaves like a typical IRC client; it doesn't need separate core management and utilizes a local engine that is used by the local frontend client. This package contains the experimental STFL frontend of Smuxi, it can run either standalone using a local engine or connect to a running remote engine (server). STFL is a library that uses ncurses to draw text based user interface using a markup language (like Glade for GTK+). This frontend is in early alpha state and lacks a lot of interface features and likes to crash.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install smuxi-frontend-stfl using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the smuxi-frontend-stfl from Fedora 34.

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