How To Install phenny on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install phenny on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is phenny
phenny is:
Phenny is a lightweight IRC bot with the usual facilities that one expects such as a Wordnet interface and thesaurus lookups. Modularly extensible with Python and can reload modules on the fly.
There are three methods to install phenny 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 phenny Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install phenny using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install phenny
Install phenny Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install phenny using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install phenny
Install phenny 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 phenny using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install phenny
How To Uninstall phenny on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the phenny package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phenny
Uninstall phenny And Its Dependencies
To uninstall phenny and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove phenny
Remove phenny Configurations and Data
To remove phenny configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge phenny
Remove phenny configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove phenny configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phenny
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phenny package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
