How To Install telepathy-haze on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-haze on Ubuntu 18.04. telepathy-haze is Telepathy connection manager that uses libpurple

Introduction

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

What is telepathy-haze

telepathy-haze is:

Haze is a Telepathy connection manager based on libpurple. This allows Telepathy-based applications to connect to all protocols supported by libpurple (Pidgin).

Libpurple supports many different protocols, including AIM, Windows Live (MSN), Yahoo!, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise and ICQ.

There are three methods to install telepathy-haze 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-haze 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-haze using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install telepathy-haze

Install telepathy-haze Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install telepathy-haze

Install telepathy-haze 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-haze using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install telepathy-haze

How To Uninstall telepathy-haze on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove telepathy-haze

Uninstall telepathy-haze And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove telepathy-haze

Remove telepathy-haze Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge telepathy-haze

Remove telepathy-haze configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge telepathy-haze

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Summary

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