How To Install tekka on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tekka on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tekka
tekka is:
The sushi IRC suite consists of a central daemon and several clients, which communicate via DBus. DBus methods and signals are provided by the daemon to abstract the IRC protocol. Clients can use these methods and signals to easily interact with IRC.
tekka is a GTK-driven client for maki and is written in Python. It uses Glade to describe the interface, supports plugins and tries to stick to the GNOME Human Interface (HIG) guidelines.
There are three methods to install tekka 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 tekka Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tekka using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tekka
Install tekka Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tekka using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tekka
Install tekka 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 tekka using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tekka
How To Uninstall tekka on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tekka package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tekka
Uninstall tekka And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tekka and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tekka
Remove tekka Configurations and Data
To remove tekka configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tekka
Remove tekka configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tekka configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tekka
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tekka package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
