How To Install fqterm on Debian 10

Learn how to install fqterm on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fqterm is BBS client written in Qt

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fqterm on Debian 10.

What is fqterm

fqterm is:

FQTerm is one of the most widely used BBS client in China, it supports Telnet/SSH1/SSH2 protocols and can process ANSI control sequences. It can be used to login BBS sites or *NIX hosts.

Almost all the BBSes in Greater China Region are in BIG5 or GBK encoding. So FQTerm only support these two encodings and ASCII.

There are three methods to install fqterm on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fqterm Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fqterm

Install fqterm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fqterm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fqterm

Install fqterm 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 fqterm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fqterm

How To Uninstall fqterm on Debian 10

To uninstall only the fqterm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fqterm

Uninstall fqterm And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fqterm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fqterm

Remove fqterm Configurations and Data

To remove fqterm configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fqterm

Remove fqterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fqterm

Dependencies

fqterm have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fqterm package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.