How To Install psi-plus-skins on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install psi-plus-skins on Debian 9. psi-plus-skins is skins for Psi+

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install psi-plus-skins on Debian 9.

What is psi-plus-skins

psi-plus-skins is:

This package contains skins for Psi+.

Psi is a cross-platform powerful XMPP/Jabber client (Qt, C++) designed for the Jabber power users. Psi+ is a development branch of Psi IM XMPP/Jabber client by [email protected] team.

Project Purpose: collection, refinement and writing new patches for transfer them to Psi upstream developers.

Full list of features you can found at: http://psi-plus.com/wiki/doku.php/en:features

There are three methods to install psi-plus-skins 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 psi-plus-skins Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install psi-plus-skins

Install psi-plus-skins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install psi-plus-skins using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install psi-plus-skins

Install psi-plus-skins 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 psi-plus-skins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install psi-plus-skins

How To Uninstall psi-plus-skins on Debian 9

To uninstall only the psi-plus-skins package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove psi-plus-skins

Uninstall psi-plus-skins And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove psi-plus-skins

Remove psi-plus-skins Configurations and Data

To remove psi-plus-skins configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge psi-plus-skins

Remove psi-plus-skins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove psi-plus-skins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge psi-plus-skins

Dependencies

psi-plus-skins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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