How To Install psi-plus-skins on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install psi-plus-skins on Ubuntu 18.04. psi-plus-skins is skins for Psi+

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install psi-plus-skins on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is psi-plus-skins

psi-plus-skins is:

This package contains skins for Psi+.

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

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

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

There are three methods to install psi-plus-skins 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04

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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install psi-plus-skins package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.