How To Install pork on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pork on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is pork
pork is:
pork is an ncurses-based AOL Instant Messenger and IRC client. It uses the OSCAR protocol (the one the windows client uses) to access AIM. Pork features Perl scripting; an online help system; the ability to configure nearly all aspects of the program’s look-and-feel; an alias system; and a powerful, fully-configurable key binding system. It supports being logged in with more than one screen name at the same time. The default look-and-feel of the client is modeled after the ircII IRC client. Anyone comfortable using ircII (or any clients derived from it – e.g., epic, BitchX, etc.) will feel comfortable using pork.
There are three methods to install pork on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pork Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pork using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pork
Install pork Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pork using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pork
Install pork 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 pork using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pork
How To Uninstall pork on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the pork package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pork
Uninstall pork And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pork and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pork
Remove pork Configurations and Data
To remove pork configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pork
Remove pork configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pork configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pork
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pork package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
