How To Install telepathy-accounts-signon on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-accounts-signon on Ubuntu 18.04. telepathy-accounts-signon is Mission control integration with libaccounts and libsignon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-accounts-signon on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is telepathy-accounts-signon

telepathy-accounts-signon is:

A mission control plugin for Telepathy, integrating with libaccounts and libsignon to provide shared management of online accounts and authentication.

There are three methods to install telepathy-accounts-signon 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 telepathy-accounts-signon Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install telepathy-accounts-signon using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install telepathy-accounts-signon

Install telepathy-accounts-signon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install telepathy-accounts-signon using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install telepathy-accounts-signon

Install telepathy-accounts-signon 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 telepathy-accounts-signon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install telepathy-accounts-signon

How To Uninstall telepathy-accounts-signon on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the telepathy-accounts-signon package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove telepathy-accounts-signon

Uninstall telepathy-accounts-signon And Its Dependencies

To uninstall telepathy-accounts-signon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove telepathy-accounts-signon

Remove telepathy-accounts-signon Configurations and Data

To remove telepathy-accounts-signon configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge telepathy-accounts-signon

Remove telepathy-accounts-signon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove telepathy-accounts-signon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge telepathy-accounts-signon

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-accounts-signon package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.