How To Install spectral on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectral
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is spectral
spectral is:
Spectral is a glossy cross-platform QT-based chat client for the Matrix protocol. Matrix is an open, decentralized, federated communications protocol with support for chat rooms, IM, etc.
There are three methods to install spectral
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 spectral Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spectral
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spectral
Install spectral Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spectral
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spectral
Install spectral 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 spectral
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spectral
How To Uninstall spectral on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the spectral
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spectral
Uninstall spectral And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spectral
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spectral
Remove spectral Configurations and Data
To remove spectral
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spectral
Remove spectral configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spectral
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spectral
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectral
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.