How To Install kildclient on Debian 10

Learn how to install kildclient on Debian 10 with this tutorial. kildclient is powerful MUD client with a built-in Perl interpreter

Introduction

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

What is kildclient

kildclient is:

KildClient is a MUD Client written with the GTK+ windowing toolkit. It supports many common features of other clients, such as triggers, gags, aliases, macros, timers, and much more. But its main feature is the built-in Perl interpreter. You can at any moment execute Perl statements and functions to do things much more powerful than simply sending text the mud. Perl statements can also be run, for example, as the action of a trigger, allowing you to do complex things. Some built-in functions of KildClient allow interaction with the world, such as sending commands to it.

KildClient’s ANSI support is extensive: it supports not only the common 16 colors, but also support underlined text (singly and doubly), text in italics, text striked through, reverse video and “hidden” text. It also supports vt100’s line-drawing characters, and xterm’s escape sequences for a 256-color mode. All these features make KildClient one of the clients with the most features for displaying the mud output.

Kildclient supports the MCCP (Mud Client Compression Protocol) protocol, versions 1 and 2, to reduce the necessary bandwidth.

KildClient allows connection through SOCKS4/5 and HTTP proxy servers.

KildClient supports the GMCP (also called ATCP2) and MSDP protocols for out-of-band communications between server and client.

This package contains the main program. Install the kildclient-doc package to access the HTML manual.

There are three methods to install kildclient 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 kildclient Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kildclient

Install kildclient Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kildclient

Install kildclient 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 kildclient using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kildclient

How To Uninstall kildclient on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove kildclient

Uninstall kildclient And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kildclient

Remove kildclient Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kildclient

Remove kildclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kildclient

Dependencies

kildclient have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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