How To Install liece on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liece on Ubuntu 18.04. liece is IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for Emacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liece on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liece

liece is:

Liece is based on Irchat, simple IRC client running under Emacsen, nevertheless nothing to do with irchat-2.4jp which has various features added by Japanese contributers (e.g. Mule support, channel buffers). We are going to full-replace to redesign thoroughly, and to stand up to extension against arbitrary protocol backend. The most recent version of this program has been almost completely rewritten from Irchat.

There are three methods to install liece 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 liece Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install liece

Install liece Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liece using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liece

Install liece 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 liece using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liece

How To Uninstall liece on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liece package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liece

Uninstall liece And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liece and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liece

Remove liece Configurations and Data

To remove liece configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liece

Remove liece configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liece

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liece package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.