How To Install irssi on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install irssi
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is irssi
irssi is:
Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.
Features include:
- Autologging
- Formats and themes
- Configurable keybindings
- Paste detection
- Perl scripting
- Irssi-proxy
- Transparent upgrading
- Recode support
Package: irssi Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.2.2-1ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: net Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Rhonda D’Vine [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2450 Provides: irssi-abi-20 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.9), libperl5.30 (>= 5.30.0), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libtinfo6 (>= 6), perl (>= 5.30.0-9), perlapi-5.30.0, perl-base (>= 5.8.1) Suggests: irssi-scripts Filename: pool/main/i/irssi/irssi_1.2.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 719312 MD5sum: 0e84a112df48deb96de71eec037eb522 SHA1: ae4b6b5d55a09dcaad7570bec7085f0ed4893008 SHA256: b945c2e247af8802ffdfffe2a264f3c8379edc07d19de856acff9bb2e9658d12 Homepage: https://irssi.org/ Description-en: terminal based IRC client Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.
Features include:
- Autologging
- Formats and themes
- Configurable keybindings
- Paste detection
- Perl scripting
- Irssi-proxy
- Transparent upgrading
- Recode support
There are three methods to install irssi
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 irssi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install irssi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install irssi
Install irssi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install irssi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install irssi
Install irssi 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 irssi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install irssi
How To Uninstall irssi on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the irssi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove irssi
Uninstall irssi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall irssi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove irssi
Remove irssi Configurations and Data
To remove irssi
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge irssi
Remove irssi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove irssi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge irssi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install irssi
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.