How To Install psi-plus on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install psi-plus
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is psi-plus
psi-plus is:
This package contains basic version of Psi+. Use it if you prefer old fashioned plain text chats from era of IRC heyday.
Psi IM is a capable XMPP client aimed at experienced users. There are keybindings for just about everything, Unicode is supported throughout, contacts are cached offline. Security is also a major consideration, and Psi IM provides it for both client-to-server (TLS) and client-to-client (GnuPG, OTR, OMEMO).
Psi+ is a development branch of Psi IM. Project purposes are: implementation of new features, writing of patches and plugins for transferring them to Psi IM.
List of supported XEPs you may found at: https://github.com/psi-im/psi/wiki/Supported-XEPs
Full list of Psi+ features you may found at: https://psi-plus.com/wiki/en:features
There are three methods to install psi-plus
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install psi-plus
Install psi-plus Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install psi-plus
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install psi-plus
Install psi-plus 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install psi-plus
How To Uninstall psi-plus on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the psi-plus
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove psi-plus
Uninstall psi-plus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall psi-plus
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove psi-plus
Remove psi-plus Configurations and Data
To remove psi-plus
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge psi-plus
Remove psi-plus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove psi-plus
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge psi-plus
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install psi-plus
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.