How To Install telepathy-idle on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-idle on Debian 12.
What is telepathy-idle
telepathy-idle is:
Idle is an IRC connection manager for the Telepathy framework. Install this package to use IRC channels and private messages in Telepathy instant messaging clients such as Empathy, GNOME Shell or KDE Telepathy.
There are three methods to install telepathy-idle on Debian 12. 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-idle 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-idle using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install telepathy-idle
Install telepathy-idle Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install telepathy-idle using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install telepathy-idle
Install telepathy-idle 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 telepathy-idle using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install telepathy-idle
How To Uninstall telepathy-idle on Debian 12
To uninstall only the telepathy-idle package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove telepathy-idle
Uninstall telepathy-idle And Its Dependencies
To uninstall telepathy-idle and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove telepathy-idle
Remove telepathy-idle Configurations and Data
To remove telepathy-idle configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge telepathy-idle
Remove telepathy-idle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove telepathy-idle configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge telepathy-idle
Dependencies
telepathy-idle have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-idle package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
