How To Install talk on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install talk
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is talk
talk is:
Talk is a visual communication program which copies lines from your terminal to that of another user.
In order to talk locally, you will need to install the talkd package.
There are three methods to install talk
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 talk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install talk
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install talk
Install talk Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install talk
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install talk
Install talk 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 talk
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install talk
How To Uninstall talk on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the talk
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove talk
Uninstall talk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall talk
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove talk
Remove talk Configurations and Data
To remove talk
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge talk
Remove talk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove talk
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge talk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install talk
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.