How To Install irker on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install irker
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is irker
irker is:
irkerd is a specialized IRC client that runs as a daemon, allowing other programs to ship IRC notifications by sending JSON objects to a listening socket.
There are three methods to install irker
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 irker Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install irker
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install irker
Install irker Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install irker
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install irker
Install irker 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 irker
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install irker
How To Uninstall irker on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the irker
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove irker
Uninstall irker And Its Dependencies
To uninstall irker
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove irker
Remove irker Configurations and Data
To remove irker
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge irker
Remove irker configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove irker
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge irker
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install irker
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.