How To Install go-sendxmpp on Debian 12

Learn how to install go-sendxmpp on Debian 12 with this tutorial. go-sendxmpp is Command line utility to send messages or files using XMPP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install go-sendxmpp on Debian 12.

What is go-sendxmpp

go-sendxmpp is:

Go-sendxmpp can send messages or files (if the server supports http-upload) to an XMPP contact or MUC. It is inspired by the perl tool sendxmpp.

There are three methods to install go-sendxmpp on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install go-sendxmpp Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install go-sendxmpp using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install go-sendxmpp

Install go-sendxmpp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install go-sendxmpp using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install go-sendxmpp

Install go-sendxmpp 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 go-sendxmpp using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install go-sendxmpp

How To Uninstall go-sendxmpp on Debian 12

To uninstall only the go-sendxmpp package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove go-sendxmpp

Uninstall go-sendxmpp And Its Dependencies

To uninstall go-sendxmpp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove go-sendxmpp

Remove go-sendxmpp Configurations and Data

To remove go-sendxmpp configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge go-sendxmpp

Remove go-sendxmpp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove go-sendxmpp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge go-sendxmpp

Dependencies

go-sendxmpp have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install go-sendxmpp package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.