How To Install telepathy-idle on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-idle
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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-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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-idle
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.