How To Install toxic on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install toxic on Debian 12.
What is toxic
toxic is:
This is a Tox-based instant messenging client which formerly resided in the Tox core repository, and is now available as a standalone application.
Tox is a secure and distributed Skype replacement.
At its heart it??s a client dealing with its core library communicating on its own protocol. All communications are encrypted using the peer audited NaCl cypto library and this encryption can not be turned off.
Tox is powered by a distributed network which uses P2P connections for chats between people, unlike other Skype replacements no federated servers, centralized servers, or supernodes are used.
There are three methods to install toxic on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install toxic Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install toxic using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install toxic
Install toxic Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install toxic using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install toxic
Install toxic 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 toxic using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install toxic
How To Uninstall toxic on Debian 12
To uninstall only the toxic package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove toxic
Uninstall toxic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall toxic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove toxic
Remove toxic Configurations and Data
To remove toxic configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge toxic
Remove toxic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove toxic configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge toxic
Dependencies
toxic have the following dependencies:
- libalut0
- libc6
- libconfig9
- libcurl3-gnutls
- libncursesw6
- libnotify4
- libopenal1
- libpng16-16
- libqrencode4
- libtinfo6
- libtoxcore2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install toxic package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
