How To Install kde-telepathy on Debian 12

Learn how to install kde-telepathy on Debian 12 with this tutorial. kde-telepathy is metapackage for installing all the KDE Telepathy components

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-telepathy on Debian 12.

What is `kde-telepathy`

kde-telepathy is:

KDE Telepathy aims to integrate real-time communication and collaboration features into the KDE Plasma Workspaces. It provides means to connect to several instant messaging networks, chat with your friends and collaborate with them.

KDE Telepathy consists of several independent components that need to be used together to provide all the available features. This package is a metapackage that installs all those components.

Apart from the dependencies that this metapackage pulls, you will also need to install at least one of the telepathy-gabble, telepathy-salut, telepathy-haze packages to be able to connect to your IM networks. gabble provides xmpp (jabber, google talk/plus, facebook), salut provides link-local xmpp (using avahi) and haze provides most other common protocols.

There are three methods to install kde-telepathy 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 kde-telepathy Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kde-telepathy

Install kde-telepathy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kde-telepathy

Install kde-telepathy 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 kde-telepathy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kde-telepathy

How To Uninstall kde-telepathy on Debian 12

To uninstall only the kde-telepathy package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kde-telepathy

Uninstall kde-telepathy And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kde-telepathy

Remove kde-telepathy Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kde-telepathy

Remove kde-telepathy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kde-telepathy

Dependencies

kde-telepathy have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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