How To Install smuxi-frontend-stfl on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smuxi-frontend-stfl
on Debian 9.
What is smuxi-frontend-stfl
smuxi-frontend-stfl is:
Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop.
Smuxi is based on the client-server model: The core application (engine) can be placed onto a server which is connected to the Internet around-the-clock; one or more frontends then connect to the core. This way, the connection to IRC can be kept up even when all frontends have been closed. The combination of screen and irssi served as example for this architecture.
Smuxi also supports the regular single application mode. This behaves like a typical IRC client; it doesn’t need separate core management and utilizes a local engine that is used by the local frontend client.
This package contains the experimental STFL frontend of Smuxi, it can run either standalone using a local engine or connect to a running remote engine (server).
STFL is a library that uses ncurses to draw text based user interface using a markup language (like Glade for GTK+). This frontend is in early alpha state and lacks a lot of interface features and likes to crash.
There are three methods to install smuxi-frontend-stfl
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 smuxi-frontend-stfl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install smuxi-frontend-stfl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install smuxi-frontend-stfl
Install smuxi-frontend-stfl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install smuxi-frontend-stfl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install smuxi-frontend-stfl
Install smuxi-frontend-stfl 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 smuxi-frontend-stfl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install smuxi-frontend-stfl
How To Uninstall smuxi-frontend-stfl on Debian 9
To uninstall only the smuxi-frontend-stfl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove smuxi-frontend-stfl
Uninstall smuxi-frontend-stfl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall smuxi-frontend-stfl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove smuxi-frontend-stfl
Remove smuxi-frontend-stfl Configurations and Data
To remove smuxi-frontend-stfl
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge smuxi-frontend-stfl
Remove smuxi-frontend-stfl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove smuxi-frontend-stfl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smuxi-frontend-stfl
Dependencies
smuxi-frontend-stfl have the following dependencies:
- smuxi-engine
- mono-runtime
- liblog4net1.2-cil
- libmono-corlib4.5-cil
- libmono-posix4.0-cil
- libmono-system-core4.0-cil
- libmono-system4.0-cil
- libncursesw5
- libstfl0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smuxi-frontend-stfl
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.