How To Install telepathy-salut on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-salut on Ubuntu 18.04. telepathy-salut is Link-local XMPP connection manager for the Telepathy framework

Introduction

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

What is telepathy-salut

telepathy-salut is:

Telepathy is a real time communications framework. Salut provides Link-local Jabber functionality for Telepathy.

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

sudo apt-get -y install telepathy-salut

Install telepathy-salut Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install telepathy-salut

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

sudo aptitude -y install telepathy-salut

How To Uninstall telepathy-salut on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove telepathy-salut

Uninstall telepathy-salut And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove telepathy-salut

Remove telepathy-salut Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge telepathy-salut

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

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

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

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Summary

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