How To Install rabbiter on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rabbiter on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is rabbiter
rabbiter is:
Rabbiter is a tool that collects tweets related to the talk and sends them to Rabbit as comments.
Rabbiter receives comments from twitter and sends them to Rabbit. Rabbit shows them in your slides. It is very useful when you talk on public events/conferences.
There are three methods to install rabbiter 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 rabbiter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rabbiter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rabbiter
Install rabbiter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rabbiter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rabbiter
Install rabbiter 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 rabbiter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rabbiter
How To Uninstall rabbiter on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the rabbiter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rabbiter
Uninstall rabbiter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rabbiter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rabbiter
Remove rabbiter Configurations and Data
To remove rabbiter configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rabbiter
Remove rabbiter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rabbiter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rabbiter
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rabbiter package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
