How To Install empathy on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install empathy
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is empathy
empathy 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 Empathy IM application and account manager.
There are three methods to install empathy
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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install empathy
Install empathy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install empathy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install empathy
Install empathy 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install empathy
How To Uninstall empathy on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the empathy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove empathy
Uninstall empathy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall empathy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove empathy
Remove empathy Configurations and Data
To remove empathy
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge empathy
Remove empathy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove empathy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge empathy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install empathy
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.