How To Install weechat-plugins on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-plugins on Debian 12.
What is weechat-plugins
weechat-plugins is:
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light chat client for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard.
This package provides some plugins to enhance WeeChat. It currently ships the following plugins:
- script manager
- Spell checking (thanks to aspell)
- FIFO pipe for remote control
- Relay (IRC proxy and WeeChat protocol)
- Trigger
- Typing
There are three methods to install weechat-plugins on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install weechat-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install weechat-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install weechat-plugins
Install weechat-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install weechat-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install weechat-plugins
Install weechat-plugins 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 weechat-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install weechat-plugins
How To Uninstall weechat-plugins on Debian 12
To uninstall only the weechat-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove weechat-plugins
Uninstall weechat-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall weechat-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove weechat-plugins
Remove weechat-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove weechat-plugins configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge weechat-plugins
Remove weechat-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove weechat-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge weechat-plugins
Dependencies
weechat-plugins have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-plugins package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
