How To Install telepathy-specification on Debian 10

Learn how to install telepathy-specification on Debian 10 with this tutorial. telepathy-specification is Telepathy D-Bus specification

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-specification on Debian 10.

What is telepathy-specification

telepathy-specification is:

Telepathy is a D-Bus framework for unifying real time communication, including instant messaging, voice calls and video calls. It abstracts differences between protocols to provide a unified interface for applications.

The specification can be browsed with the devhelp documentation browser, or with a regular web browser.

There are three methods to install telepathy-specification on Debian 10. 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-specification 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-specification using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install telepathy-specification

Install telepathy-specification Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install telepathy-specification

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

sudo aptitude -y install telepathy-specification

How To Uninstall telepathy-specification on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove telepathy-specification

Uninstall telepathy-specification And Its Dependencies

To uninstall telepathy-specification and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove telepathy-specification

Remove telepathy-specification Configurations and Data

To remove telepathy-specification configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge telepathy-specification

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

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

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

Dependencies

telepathy-specification have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install telepathy-specification package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.