How To Install barnowl on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install barnowl on Debian 10.
What is barnowl
barnowl is:
A curses-based instant-messaging client supporting the Jabber, IRC, AIM and Zephyr protocols. Much of the functionality is written in Perl, which is supported as an extension language.
This is a fork of ktools software’s owl Zephyr/AIM client.
There are three methods to install barnowl 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 barnowl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install barnowl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install barnowl
Install barnowl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install barnowl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install barnowl
Install barnowl 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 barnowl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install barnowl
How To Uninstall barnowl on Debian 10
To uninstall only the barnowl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove barnowl
Uninstall barnowl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall barnowl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove barnowl
Remove barnowl Configurations and Data
To remove barnowl configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge barnowl
Remove barnowl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove barnowl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge barnowl
Dependencies
barnowl have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libcom-err2
- libglib2.0-0
- libncursesw6
- libperl5.28
- libssl1.1
- libtinfo6
- libzephyr4
- libnet-dns-perl
- libauthen-sasl-perl
- libgssapi-perl
- libio-socket-ssl-perl
- libpar-perl
- libtext-autoformat-perl
- libanyevent-irc-perl
- libclass-accessor-perl
- libglib-perl
- libmime-base64-urlsafe-perl
- libdatetime-perl
- libdatetime-format-strptime-perl
- liburi-perl
- liburi-encode-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install barnowl package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.