How To Install nicotine on Debian 10

Learn how to install nicotine on Debian 10 with this tutorial. nicotine is graphical client for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nicotine on Debian 10.

What is nicotine

nicotine is:

Nicotine is a client for SoulSeek, a light and efficient file sharing system, written in Python and using the GTK2 toolkit, based on the PySoulSeek project.

It features uploading, downloading, searching and chatting, with strict bandwidth control, and tries to look like PySoulSeek.

There are three methods to install nicotine on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install nicotine Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install nicotine

Install nicotine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nicotine

Install nicotine 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 nicotine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nicotine

How To Uninstall nicotine on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove nicotine

Uninstall nicotine And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nicotine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nicotine

Remove nicotine Configurations and Data

To remove nicotine configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nicotine

Remove nicotine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nicotine

Dependencies

nicotine have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nicotine package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.