How To Install telepathy-mission-control-5 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-mission-control-5 on Debian 11.
What is telepathy-mission-control-5
telepathy-mission-control-5 is:
Telepathy Mission Control 5 is an account manager and channel dispatcher for the Telepathy framework, allowing user interfaces and other clients to share connections to real-time communication services without conflicting. It implements the AccountManager and ChannelDispatcher D-Bus APIs as described by telepathy-spec.
The account manager part stores real time communication account details, connects to the stored accounts on request, and sets the accounts’ presence, nickname and avatar according to requests from Telepathy user interfaces and other components.
The channel dispatcher part responds to incoming communication channels (message streams, voice/video calls, file transfers etc.) by dispatching them to suitable user interfaces, and requests outgoing communication channels according to requests from a Telepathy UI.
This is not a compatible replacement for Mission Control 4 (in the telepathy-mission-control package), but they can be installed in parallel.
There are three methods to install telepathy-mission-control-5 on Debian 11. 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-mission-control-5 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-mission-control-5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install telepathy-mission-control-5
Install telepathy-mission-control-5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install telepathy-mission-control-5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install telepathy-mission-control-5
Install telepathy-mission-control-5 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-mission-control-5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install telepathy-mission-control-5
How To Uninstall telepathy-mission-control-5 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the telepathy-mission-control-5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove telepathy-mission-control-5
Uninstall telepathy-mission-control-5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall telepathy-mission-control-5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove telepathy-mission-control-5
Remove telepathy-mission-control-5 Configurations and Data
To remove telepathy-mission-control-5 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge telepathy-mission-control-5
Remove telepathy-mission-control-5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove telepathy-mission-control-5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge telepathy-mission-control-5
Dependencies
telepathy-mission-control-5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-mission-control-5 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
