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# Verify that the elinks package has been removed. Also verify that the application called: '''xchat''' is not installed.
# Use the wget command to download the xchat rpm binary from the following URL:
::<b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/xchat-2.8.8-2324.el7.x86_64.rpm</span></code></b><br>
::What do you think is the purpose of the numbers also contained in the filename?
<ol><li value="8">Issue the command: <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">yum localinstall xchat-2.8.8-2324.el7.x86_64.rpm</span></code></b></li>
<li>Verify that the '''xchat''' command has been installed.</li>
<li>Run the xchat application. What does it say if you run this application as root?</li></ol>