How To Install telepathy-gabble on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-gabble on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is telepathy-gabble
telepathy-gabble is:
Gabble is a Jabber/XMPP connection manager for the Telepathy framework, currently supporting single user chats, multi user chats and voice/video calls. Install this package to use Telepathy instant messaging clients with Jabber/XMPP servers, including Google Talk and Facebook Chat.
There are three methods to install telepathy-gabble 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-gabble 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-gabble using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install telepathy-gabble
Install telepathy-gabble Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install telepathy-gabble using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install telepathy-gabble
Install telepathy-gabble 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-gabble using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install telepathy-gabble
How To Uninstall telepathy-gabble on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the telepathy-gabble package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove telepathy-gabble
Uninstall telepathy-gabble And Its Dependencies
To uninstall telepathy-gabble and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove telepathy-gabble
Remove telepathy-gabble Configurations and Data
To remove telepathy-gabble configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge telepathy-gabble
Remove telepathy-gabble configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove telepathy-gabble configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge telepathy-gabble
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-gabble package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
