How To Install kde-telepathy-text-ui on Debian 12

Learn how to install kde-telepathy-text-ui on Debian 12 with this tutorial. kde-telepathy-text-ui is Telepathy text chat UI for the KDE Plasma Desktop

Introduction

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

What is kde-telepathy-text-ui

kde-telepathy-text-ui is:

This package provides a telepathy handler for text channels, a program that in other words allows you to chat with your contacts using instant text messages.

In addition, this package also provides a UI for viewing telepathy text chat logs.

This package is not meant to be used standalone. It is recommended to install the kde-telepathy metapackage instead.

There are three methods to install kde-telepathy-text-ui 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-text-ui 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-text-ui using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kde-telepathy-text-ui

Install kde-telepathy-text-ui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kde-telepathy-text-ui

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

sudo aptitude -y install kde-telepathy-text-ui

How To Uninstall kde-telepathy-text-ui on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove kde-telepathy-text-ui

Uninstall kde-telepathy-text-ui And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kde-telepathy-text-ui

Remove kde-telepathy-text-ui Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kde-telepathy-text-ui

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

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

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

Dependencies

kde-telepathy-text-ui have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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