How To Install quassel-client on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel-client
on Kali Linux.
What is quassel-client
quassel-client is:
Quassel is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one or more clients can attach to and detach from the central core. It’s much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat or irssi, but graphical.
This package provides only the client component.
There are three methods to install quassel-client
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install quassel-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install quassel-client
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install quassel-client
Install quassel-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install quassel-client
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install quassel-client
Install quassel-client Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install quassel-client
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install quassel-client
How To Uninstall quassel-client on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the quassel-client
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove quassel-client
Uninstall quassel-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall quassel-client
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove quassel-client
Remove quassel-client Configurations and Data
To remove quassel-client
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge quassel-client
Remove quassel-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove quassel-client
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quassel-client
Dependencies
quassel-client have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libdbusmenu-qt5-2
- libgcc-s1
- libkf5configwidgets5
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5notifications5
- libkf5notifyconfig5
- libkf5sonnetui5
- libkf5textwidgets5
- libkf5widgetsaddons5
- libkf5xmlgui5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5multimedia5
- libqt5network5
- libqt5webenginewidgets5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel-client
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.