How To Install psi-plus-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install psi-plus-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is psi-plus-plugins
psi-plus-plugins is:
This package contains plugins for Psi+.
Psi IM is a cross-platform powerful XMPP/Jabber client (Qt, C++) designed for the Jabber power users. Psi+ is a development branch of Psi client by [email protected] team.
Project Purpose: collection, refinement and writing new patches for transferring them to Psi IM upstream.
Full list of features you can found at: http://psi-plus.com/wiki/en:features
There are three methods to install psi-plus-plugins 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 psi-plus-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install psi-plus-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install psi-plus-plugins
Install psi-plus-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install psi-plus-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install psi-plus-plugins
Install psi-plus-plugins 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 psi-plus-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install psi-plus-plugins
How To Uninstall psi-plus-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the psi-plus-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove psi-plus-plugins
Uninstall psi-plus-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall psi-plus-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove psi-plus-plugins
Remove psi-plus-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove psi-plus-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge psi-plus-plugins
Remove psi-plus-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove psi-plus-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge psi-plus-plugins
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install psi-plus-plugins package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
