How To Install coyim on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install coyim
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is coyim
coyim is:
CoyIM is a chat client using the XMPP protocol. It is built upon https://github.com/agl/xmpp-client and https://github.com/twstrike/otr3. It adds a graphical user interface and tries to be safe and secure by default. The authors’ ambition is that it should be possible for even the most high-risk people on the planet to safely use CoyIM, without having to make any configuration changes.
To do this, OTR is enabled by default, Tor is used by default, and the Tor Onion Service will be used for a server if it is known. Also, TLS and TLS certificates are used to verify the connection - no configuration necessary. The implementation is written in the Go language, to avoid many common types of vulnerabilities that come from using unsafe languages.
There are three methods to install coyim
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 coyim Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install coyim
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install coyim
Install coyim Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install coyim
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install coyim
Install coyim 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 coyim
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install coyim
How To Uninstall coyim on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the coyim
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove coyim
Uninstall coyim And Its Dependencies
To uninstall coyim
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove coyim
Remove coyim Configurations and Data
To remove coyim
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge coyim
Remove coyim configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove coyim
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge coyim
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install coyim
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.