How To Install pidgin-blinklight on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pidgin-blinklight
on Debian 9.
What is pidgin-blinklight
pidgin-blinklight is:
This plugin for Pidgin will blink your laptops when you get new messages, so you notice them even if the conversation window is not up front and you don’t have or don’t see the window list.
To use this with an Thinkpad’s ThinkLight, you need to have the ibm-acpi kernel module loaded.
To use this with an ASUS laptop, you need to have the asus_acpi kernel module loaded.
There are three methods to install pidgin-blinklight
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pidgin-blinklight Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pidgin-blinklight
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pidgin-blinklight
Install pidgin-blinklight Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pidgin-blinklight
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pidgin-blinklight
Install pidgin-blinklight 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 pidgin-blinklight
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pidgin-blinklight
How To Uninstall pidgin-blinklight on Debian 9
To uninstall only the pidgin-blinklight
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pidgin-blinklight
Uninstall pidgin-blinklight And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pidgin-blinklight
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pidgin-blinklight
Remove pidgin-blinklight Configurations and Data
To remove pidgin-blinklight
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pidgin-blinklight
Remove pidgin-blinklight configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pidgin-blinklight
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pidgin-blinklight
Dependencies
pidgin-blinklight have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pidgin-blinklight
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.