How To Install empathy-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install empathy-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is empathy-common
empathy-common is:
Instant messaging program supporting text, voice, video, file transfers and inter-application communication over many different protocols, including: AIM, Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), Yahoo!, Salut, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise and ICQ.
This package contains the architecture independent files for Empathy IM application.
There are three methods to install empathy-common on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install empathy-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 empathy-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install empathy-common
Install empathy-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install empathy-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install empathy-common
Install empathy-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install empathy-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install empathy-common
How To Uninstall empathy-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the empathy-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove empathy-common
Uninstall empathy-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall empathy-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove empathy-common
Remove empathy-common Configurations and Data
To remove empathy-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge empathy-common
Remove empathy-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove empathy-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge empathy-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install empathy-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
