HipChat 4 has recently come out, and then shortly after it was released to my companies internal HipChat server. Being a Linux user I hoped that the aged HipChat 2 client was finally updated for Fedora or Red Hat or CentOS 7 so I could just use yum to install it. When I went to the download page the old yum instructions were replaced by only Ubuntu/Debian instructions! After playing around with the Debian package and getting it to load, I thought I would look at the repo a little more. Low and behold, Atlassian is making a yum repo! Just not publishing instructions on how to use it! The downside is they seem to not be signing the repo, but the code below works with yum to download the latest version.
sudo bash -c ‘cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/hipchat.repo << EOF_hipchat
[atlassian-hipchat]
name=Atlassian Hipchat
baseurl=https://atlassian.artifactoryonline.com/atlassian/hipchat-yum-client/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF_hipchat’sudo yum update
sudo yum install hipchat4
BuildingTents 
Brilliant! Using the web browser has been sooooo annoying.
You are not publishing instructions how to use it either, my friend. Where is this code supposed to be entered? Entering this in the Terminal does not work. A step by step explanation would be great. Thanks.
That on a yum based system, in the terminal should get you going. Where is it not working?
Hi, Danberk
Thanks for your reply. I’m using Fedora 23. Nothing happened when entering the code into the terminal window. No error messages occur and so forth. I’ve been using Linux for quite some time, but I’m ‘still’ not an expert when it comes to this command line stuff. I was able to install uTox so I guess that will do the job until HipChat will be officially available. 🙂
It has been this way for a while, I feel they are officially, unoffically putting this out. The important thing:
[atlassian-hipchat]name=Atlassian Hipchat
baseurl=https://atlassian.artifactoryonline.com/atlassian/hipchat-yum-client/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
block into any file in /etc/yum.repos.d/, then you can yum update to pull that repo, and yum install hipchat4. Please note to write that file you have to have sudo/root.
I was able to create a file with the info you provided and put it into /etc/yum.repos.d/ .. Now it works like a charm. 😀 Thanks for your help. 🙂
This seems like a silly questions,
I have installed HipChat “Package hipchat4-4.26.0.1657-1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do”
How do I launch it? What URL can I hit it with?
I have it running on Centos 7 – I have disabled the firewall and looked to hit it at http://:5222 & and http://:5223
In a console, as your normal user you should be able to type “hipchat4” and it should start
would you tell more details thank you
The gpg key is available at: https://www.hipchat.com/keys/hipchat-linux.key
So, for more secure setup, use the below one
sudo bash -c ‘cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/hipchat.repo << EOF_hipchat
[atlassian-hipchat]
name=Atlassian Hipchat
baseurl=https://atlassian.artifactoryonline.com/atlassian/hipchat-yum-client/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://www.hipchat.com/keys/hipchat-linux.key
EOF_hipchat'
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install hipchat4
when I do : hipchat4
QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
Running on a CentOS 7
What X11 gui are you using?
Just migrated from Ubuntu to Fedora. This was very helpful! Thanks.
This worked great for me, thank you!
Glad to hear it!
yes,I installed hipchat using this successfully.but how can i start the service or how to config it?
Hi,
You should be able to go to a terminal and enter “hipchat4” to start the program.