How To Install libircclient-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libircclient-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libircclient-dev
libircclient-dev is:
libircclient is a small but powerful library that implements the client-server IRC protocol. It is designed to be small, fast, portable and compatible to RFC standards, and most IRC clients. libircclient features include:
- Full multi-threading support.
- Single threads handles all the IRC processing.
- Support for single-threaded applications, and socket-based applications, which use select()
- Synchronous and asynchronous interfaces.
- CTCP support with optional build-in reply code.
- Flexible DCC support, including both DCC chat, and DCC file transfer.
- Can both initiate and react to initiated DCC.
- Can accept or decline DCC sessions asynchronously.
- Plain C interface and implementation (possible to use from C++ code, obviously)
- Compatible with RFC 1459 and most IRC clients.
- Good documentation and examples available.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libircclient-dev on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libircclient-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libircclient-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libircclient-dev
Install libircclient-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libircclient-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libircclient-dev
Install libircclient-dev 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 libircclient-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libircclient-dev
How To Uninstall libircclient-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libircclient-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libircclient-dev
Uninstall libircclient-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libircclient-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libircclient-dev
Remove libircclient-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libircclient-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libircclient-dev
Remove libircclient-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libircclient-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libircclient-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libircclient-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
