How To Install kaidan on Debian 12

Learn how to install kaidan on Debian 12 with this tutorial. kaidan is Simple and user-friendly Jabber/XMPP client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kaidan on Debian 12.

What is kaidan

kaidan is:

Kaidan is a simple, user-friendly and modern chat client. It uses the open communication protocol XMPP (Jabber).

The user interface makes use of Kirigami and QtQuick, while the back-end of Kaidan is entirely written in C++ using Qt and the Qt-based XMPP library QXmpp.

There are three methods to install kaidan on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install kaidan Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install kaidan using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kaidan

Install kaidan Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kaidan using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kaidan

Install kaidan 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install kaidan using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kaidan

How To Uninstall kaidan on Debian 12

To uninstall only the kaidan package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kaidan

Uninstall kaidan And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kaidan and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kaidan

Remove kaidan Configurations and Data

To remove kaidan configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kaidan

Remove kaidan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove kaidan configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kaidan

Dependencies

kaidan have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kaidan package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.