How To Install biboumi on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install biboumi on Debian 12.
What is biboumi
biboumi is:
Biboumi is an XMPP gateway that connects to IRC servers and translates between the two protocols. It can be used to access IRC channels using any XMPP client as if these channels were XMPP MUCs.
It is written in modern C++14 and makes great efforts to have as little dependencies and to be as simple as possible.
The goal is to provide a way to access most of IRC features using any XMPP client. It doesn??t however try to provide a complete mapping of the features of both worlds simply because this is not useful and most probably impossible. For example all IRC modes are not all translatable into an XMPP features. Some of them are (like +m (mute) or +o (operator) modes), but some others are IRC-specific. If IRC is the limiting factor (for example you cannot have a non-ASCII nickname on IRC) then biboumi doesn??t try to work around this issue: it just enforces the rules of the IRC server by telling the user that he/she must choose an ASCII-only nickname. An important goal is to keep the software (and its code) light and simple.
There are three methods to install biboumi 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 biboumi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install biboumi using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install biboumi
Install biboumi Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install biboumi using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install biboumi
Install biboumi 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 biboumi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install biboumi
How To Uninstall biboumi on Debian 12
To uninstall only the biboumi package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove biboumi
Uninstall biboumi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall biboumi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove biboumi
Remove biboumi Configurations and Data
To remove biboumi configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge biboumi
Remove biboumi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove biboumi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge biboumi
Dependencies
biboumi have the following dependencies:
- libbotan-2-19
- libc6
- libexpat1
- libgcc-s1
- libidn12
- libpq5
- libsqlite3-0
- libstdc++6
- libsystemd0
- libudns0
- libuuid1
- adduser
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install biboumi package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.