How To Install quassel-data on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel-data on Ubuntu 20.04. quassel-data is distributed IRC client - shared data distributed IRC client - shared data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel-data on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is quassel-data

quassel-data 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 files used by the Quassel client packages. Task: lubuntu-desktop

Package: quassel-data Architecture: all Version: 1:0.13.1-3ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: foreign 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: 5559 Recommends: breeze-icon-theme | oxygen-icon-theme Suggests: inxi Conflicts: quassel-data-kde4 Filename: pool/universe/q/quassel/quassel-data_0.13.1-3ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 804128 MD5sum: c7d97d36aa4281f0e50aa458f20ab3bc SHA1: 390b68a06c2c91d0d811ff852375a7dde962186e SHA256: b108887766d9647ec29365763ab279571fb2f50b7a920258b5d6e3e32c26c979 Homepage: https://www.quassel-irc.org/ Description-en: distributed IRC client - shared data 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 files used by the Quassel client packages. Task: lubuntu-desktop

There are three methods to install quassel-data 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-data 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-data using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install quassel-data

Install quassel-data Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install quassel-data

Install quassel-data 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-data using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install quassel-data

How To Uninstall quassel-data on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the quassel-data package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove quassel-data

Uninstall quassel-data And Its Dependencies

To uninstall quassel-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove quassel-data

Remove quassel-data Configurations and Data

To remove quassel-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge quassel-data

Remove quassel-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quassel-data

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel-data package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.