How To Install inspircd on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install inspircd
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is inspircd
inspircd is:
InspIRCd is a modular C++ IRC Daemon for several operating systems created to provide a stable, modern, lightweight irc server from scratch and provide a vast number of features in a modularised form using an advanced module API. By keeping the functionality of the main core to a minimum, the server is very stable, fast and customizable.
This package contains the daemon.
There are three methods to install inspircd
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 inspircd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install inspircd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install inspircd
Install inspircd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install inspircd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install inspircd
Install inspircd 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 inspircd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install inspircd
How To Uninstall inspircd on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the inspircd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove inspircd
Uninstall inspircd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall inspircd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove inspircd
Remove inspircd Configurations and Data
To remove inspircd
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge inspircd
Remove inspircd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove inspircd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inspircd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install inspircd
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.