How To Install smuxi-engine on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smuxi-engine on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is smuxi-engine
smuxi-engine is:
Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop.
Smuxi is based on the client-server model: The core application (engine) can be placed onto a server which is connected to the Internet around-the-clock; one or more frontends then connect to the core. This way, the connection to IRC can be kept up even when all frontends have been closed. The combination of screen and irssi served as example for this architecture.
Smuxi also supports the regular single application mode. This behaves like a typical IRC client; it doesn’t need separate core management and utilizes a local engine that is used by the local frontend client.
This package contains all Smuxi engines and the standalone server.
The standalone server of Smuxi named smuxi-server doesn’t need any GUI. The Smuxi frontends can connect to a running server via the network.
The following Smuxi engines are included in this package:
- IRC engine
- Twitter engine
- receive and post tweets to the Twitter microblogging service.
- friends timeline, replies view, and direct messages.
- XMPP engine
- receive and send messages on XMPP, Jabber, GTalk and the Facebook chat.
- Campfire engine
- JabbR engine
There are three methods to install smuxi-engine 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 smuxi-engine Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install smuxi-engine using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install smuxi-engine
Install smuxi-engine Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install smuxi-engine using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install smuxi-engine
Install smuxi-engine 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 smuxi-engine using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install smuxi-engine
How To Uninstall smuxi-engine on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the smuxi-engine package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove smuxi-engine
Uninstall smuxi-engine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall smuxi-engine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove smuxi-engine
Remove smuxi-engine Configurations and Data
To remove smuxi-engine configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge smuxi-engine
Remove smuxi-engine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove smuxi-engine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smuxi-engine
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smuxi-engine package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
