How To Install maki-plugins on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install maki-plugins on Debian 9. maki-plugins is D-Bus-based IRC suite (daemon plugins)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install maki-plugins on Debian 9.

What is maki-plugins

maki-plugins is:

The sushi IRC suite consists of a central daemon and several clients, which communicate via DBus. DBus methods and signals are provided by the daemon to abstract the IRC protocol. Clients can use these methods and signals to easily interact with IRC.

This package contains plugins for maki.

There are three methods to install maki-plugins 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 maki-plugins Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install maki-plugins

Install maki-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install maki-plugins

Install maki-plugins 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 maki-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install maki-plugins

How To Uninstall maki-plugins on Debian 9

To uninstall only the maki-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove maki-plugins

Uninstall maki-plugins And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove maki-plugins

Remove maki-plugins Configurations and Data

To remove maki-plugins configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge maki-plugins

Remove maki-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maki-plugins

Dependencies

maki-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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