How To Install ircd-ircu on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ircd-ircu
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ircd-ircu
ircd-ircu is:
This is ircu, the Undernet Internet Relay Chat daemon, which allows interactive character based communication between people connected to this server with IRC clients. It is based on the latest stable version which can be downloaded from http://coder-com.undernet.org/.
This version is compiled for network usage but it can also run standalone. You can modify its behaviour with reconfiguring/rebuilding.
There are three methods to install ircd-ircu
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 ircd-ircu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ircd-ircu
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ircd-ircu
Install ircd-ircu Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ircd-ircu
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ircd-ircu
Install ircd-ircu 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 ircd-ircu
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ircd-ircu
How To Uninstall ircd-ircu on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ircd-ircu
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ircd-ircu
Uninstall ircd-ircu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ircd-ircu
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ircd-ircu
Remove ircd-ircu Configurations and Data
To remove ircd-ircu
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ircd-ircu
Remove ircd-ircu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ircd-ircu
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ircd-ircu
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ircd-ircu
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.