How To Install talk on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install talk on Debian 10.
What is talk
talk is:
Talk is a visual communication program which copies lines from your terminal to that of another user.
In order to talk locally, you will need to install the talkd package.
There are three methods to install talk on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install talk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install talk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install talk
Install talk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install talk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install talk
Install talk 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install talk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install talk
How To Uninstall talk on Debian 10
To uninstall only the talk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove talk
Uninstall talk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall talk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove talk
Remove talk Configurations and Data
To remove talk configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge talk
Remove talk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove talk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge talk
Dependencies
talk have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install talk package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.