How To Install telepathy-rakia on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-rakia on Ubuntu 18.04. telepathy-rakia is SIP connection manager for the Telepathy framework

Introduction

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

What is telepathy-rakia

telepathy-rakia is:

telepathy-rakia is a SIP connection manager for the Telepathy framework (http://telepathy.freedesktop.org) based on the SofiaSIP-stack.

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

sudo apt-get -y install telepathy-rakia

Install telepathy-rakia Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install telepathy-rakia

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

sudo aptitude -y install telepathy-rakia

How To Uninstall telepathy-rakia on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove telepathy-rakia

Uninstall telepathy-rakia And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove telepathy-rakia

Remove telepathy-rakia Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge telepathy-rakia

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

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

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

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Summary

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