How To Install limnoria on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install limnoria on Debian 9. limnoria is robust and user-friendly Python IRC bot

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install limnoria on Debian 9.

What is limnoria

limnoria is:

A robust, full-featured Python IRC bot with a clean and flexible plugin API. Equipped with a complete ACL system for specifying user permissions with as much as per-command granularity. Batteries are included in the form of numerous plugins already written.

Limnoria is robust (it doesn’t crash), user friendly (it’s easy to configure) and programmer friendly (plugins are extremely easy to write). It aims to be an adequate replacement for most existing IRC bots.

It is the maintained fork of supybot.

This package provides Python 3-only modules and scripts.

There are three methods to install limnoria on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install limnoria Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install limnoria

Install limnoria Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install limnoria

Install limnoria 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 limnoria using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install limnoria

How To Uninstall limnoria on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove limnoria

Uninstall limnoria And Its Dependencies

To uninstall limnoria and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove limnoria

Remove limnoria Configurations and Data

To remove limnoria configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge limnoria

Remove limnoria configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge limnoria

Dependencies

limnoria have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install limnoria package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.