How To Install hexchat-perl on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hexchat-perl
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is hexchat-perl
hexchat-perl is:
This package contains the perl plugin for HexChat. Previously included in the main HexChat package, it’s now separate as it’s not actually required for core functionality.
Package: hexchat-perl Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.14.3-3 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: hexchat Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Mattia Rizzolo [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 124 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libperl5.30 (>= 5.30.0) Recommends: hexchat Filename: pool/universe/h/hexchat/hexchat-perl_2.14.3-3_amd64.deb Size: 29292 MD5sum: 8383366708b6d6c747d02c4b45f8474f SHA1: 13c91e1daca5c18f13e72c6731224511afbb847e SHA256: 2b71b6df3ce4e37276dafbbda0f771f36674668863f6eb0ce7fad0369d23194d Homepage: https://hexchat.github.io Description-en: Perl plugin for HexChat This package contains the perl plugin for HexChat. Previously included in the main HexChat package, it’s now separate as it’s not actually required for core functionality.
There are three methods to install hexchat-perl
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hexchat-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hexchat-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hexchat-perl
Install hexchat-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hexchat-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hexchat-perl
Install hexchat-perl Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hexchat-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hexchat-perl
How To Uninstall hexchat-perl on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the hexchat-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hexchat-perl
Uninstall hexchat-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hexchat-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hexchat-perl
Remove hexchat-perl Configurations and Data
To remove hexchat-perl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hexchat-perl
Remove hexchat-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hexchat-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hexchat-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hexchat-perl
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.