How To Install nicotine on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nicotine on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nicotine
Remove nicotine Configurations and Data
To remove nicotine configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nicotine package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
