How To Install weechat-plugins on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-plugins on Debian 9. weechat-plugins is Fast, light and extensible chat client - plugins

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-plugins on Debian 9.

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:

  • Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme and Javascript scripting
  • scripts manager
  • Spell checking (thanks to aspell)
  • FIFO pipe for remote control
  • IRC proxy
  • Trigger

There are three methods to install weechat-plugins 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 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 9

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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.