How To Install hexchat-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hexchat-dev
on Debian 11.
What is hexchat-dev
hexchat-dev is:
This package contains the hexchat-plugin.h and hexchat-plugin.pc files, which facilitate building binary plugins. Hexchat is a popular and featureful IRC client with a GTK+ GUI. For more information on IRC, see http://irchelp.org/.
There are three methods to install hexchat-dev
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hexchat-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hexchat-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hexchat-dev
Install hexchat-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hexchat-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hexchat-dev
Install hexchat-dev 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 hexchat-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hexchat-dev
How To Uninstall hexchat-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the hexchat-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hexchat-dev
Uninstall hexchat-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hexchat-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hexchat-dev
Remove hexchat-dev Configurations and Data
To remove hexchat-dev
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hexchat-dev
Remove hexchat-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hexchat-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hexchat-dev
Dependencies
hexchat-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hexchat-dev
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.