How To Install quassel-client on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel-client on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is quassel-client
quassel-client is:
Quassel is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one or more clients can attach to and detach from the central core. It’s much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat or irssi, but graphical.
This package provides only the client component.
Package: quassel-client Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:0.13.1-3ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: quassel Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian KDE Extras Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 5101 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libdbusmenu-qt5-2 (>= 0.3.2), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libkf5configwidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 5.2.0), libkf5notifications5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5notifyconfig5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5sonnetui5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5textwidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5widgetsaddons5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5xmlgui-bin, libkf5xmlgui5 (>= 4.98.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.8.0) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.8.0), libqt5multimedia5 (>= 5.6.0~beta), libqt5network5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5webenginewidgets5 (>= 5.7.1), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.9), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), quassel-data (= 1:0.13.1-3ubuntu2), default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus Breaks: quassel-client-kde4 (« 0.12.2) Replaces: quassel-client-kde4 (« 0.12.2) Filename: pool/universe/q/quassel/quassel-client_0.13.1-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 1410904 MD5sum: 30930832acc52cf2581ef18fb7e4191c SHA1: 654f154fcb9100d61ec0022e7693c2bd107ad83c SHA256: 622ec0c88f7fa9ec269c7777dde98ead5c54d33445d230aa3a1b608e729f7535 Homepage: https://www.quassel-irc.org/ Description-en: distributed IRC client - client component Quassel is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one or more clients can attach to and detach from the central core. It’s much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat or irssi, but graphical.
This package provides only the client component.
There are three methods to install quassel-client on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install quassel-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install quassel-client using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install quassel-client
Install quassel-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install quassel-client using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install quassel-client
Install quassel-client 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 quassel-client using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install quassel-client
How To Uninstall quassel-client on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the quassel-client package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove quassel-client
Uninstall quassel-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall quassel-client and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove quassel-client
Remove quassel-client Configurations and Data
To remove quassel-client configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge quassel-client
Remove quassel-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove quassel-client configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quassel-client
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel-client package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
