How To Install pidgin-guifications on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pidgin-guifications
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pidgin-guifications
pidgin-guifications is:
Guifications are notifications windows styled after those found in msn, deadaim, and newer version of aim, yahoo instant messenger, and a lot of other applications. The notifications are user customizable/themable and a few example themes ship in the package.
There are three methods to install pidgin-guifications
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pidgin-guifications 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-guifications
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pidgin-guifications
Install pidgin-guifications Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pidgin-guifications
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pidgin-guifications
Install pidgin-guifications 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 pidgin-guifications
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pidgin-guifications
How To Uninstall pidgin-guifications on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the pidgin-guifications
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pidgin-guifications
Uninstall pidgin-guifications And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pidgin-guifications
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pidgin-guifications
Remove pidgin-guifications Configurations and Data
To remove pidgin-guifications
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pidgin-guifications
Remove pidgin-guifications configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pidgin-guifications
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pidgin-guifications
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pidgin-guifications
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.