How To Install telepathy-gabble on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-gabble on Debian 9. telepathy-gabble is Jabber/XMPP connection manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-gabble on Debian 9.

What is telepathy-gabble

telepathy-gabble is:

Gabble is a Jabber/XMPP connection manager for the Telepathy framework, currently supporting single user chats, multi user chats and voice/video calls. Install this package to use Telepathy instant messaging clients with Jabber/XMPP servers, including Google Talk and Facebook Chat.

There are three methods to install telepathy-gabble 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 telepathy-gabble Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install telepathy-gabble using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install telepathy-gabble

Install telepathy-gabble Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install telepathy-gabble

Install telepathy-gabble 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 telepathy-gabble using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install telepathy-gabble

How To Uninstall telepathy-gabble on Debian 9

To uninstall only the telepathy-gabble package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove telepathy-gabble

Uninstall telepathy-gabble And Its Dependencies

To uninstall telepathy-gabble and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove telepathy-gabble

Remove telepathy-gabble Configurations and Data

To remove telepathy-gabble configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge telepathy-gabble

Remove telepathy-gabble configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge telepathy-gabble

Dependencies

telepathy-gabble have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-gabble package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.