How To Install profanity on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install profanity
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is profanity
profanity is:
Profanity is a console based instant messaging client for XMPP (Jabber) protocol based chat. It is inspired by popular IRC client IRSSI.
Profanity’s features are:
- Supports XMPP chat services
- MUC chat room support
- PGP, OMEMO, and OTR encryption
- Roster management
- Flexible resource and priority settings
- Desktop notifications
- Plugins in Python and C
- Support for colorthemes
There are three methods to install profanity
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 profanity Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install profanity
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install profanity
Install profanity Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install profanity
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install profanity
Install profanity 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 profanity
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install profanity
How To Uninstall profanity on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the profanity
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove profanity
Uninstall profanity And Its Dependencies
To uninstall profanity
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove profanity
Remove profanity Configurations and Data
To remove profanity
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge profanity
Remove profanity configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove profanity
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge profanity
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install profanity
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.