How To Install circle-gtk on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install circle-gtk on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is circle-gtk
circle-gtk is:
Circle is an IRC client which merges the best attributes of a local client and the common screen+irssi recipe:
- Keep IRC connects and state on a backend server, allowing disconnections from local UI.
- Interact with a real local GUI for the frontend, instead of incurring SSH roundtrips for every keypress.
Circle uses Tangence for its underlying communications layer.
This package provides a GTK 2 user interface for Circle. It needs circle-backend to be installed on the same or a different machine in order to be useful.
There are three methods to install circle-gtk on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install circle-gtk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install circle-gtk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install circle-gtk
Install circle-gtk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install circle-gtk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install circle-gtk
Install circle-gtk 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install circle-gtk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install circle-gtk
How To Uninstall circle-gtk on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the circle-gtk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove circle-gtk
Uninstall circle-gtk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall circle-gtk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove circle-gtk
Remove circle-gtk Configurations and Data
To remove circle-gtk configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge circle-gtk
Remove circle-gtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove circle-gtk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge circle-gtk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install circle-gtk package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
