How To Install bitlbee-common on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bitlbee-common
on Debian 10.
What is bitlbee-common
bitlbee-common is:
This program can be used as an IRC server which forwards everything you say to people on other chat networks: Jabber (which includes Google Talk), ICQ, AIM, MSN and Twitter.
This package contains common files (mostly documentation) for bitlbee and bitlbee-libpurple.
There are three methods to install bitlbee-common
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 bitlbee-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bitlbee-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bitlbee-common
Install bitlbee-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bitlbee-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bitlbee-common
Install bitlbee-common 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 bitlbee-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bitlbee-common
How To Uninstall bitlbee-common on Debian 10
To uninstall only the bitlbee-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bitlbee-common
Uninstall bitlbee-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bitlbee-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bitlbee-common
Remove bitlbee-common Configurations and Data
To remove bitlbee-common
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bitlbee-common
Remove bitlbee-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bitlbee-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bitlbee-common
Dependencies
bitlbee-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bitlbee-common
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.