How To Install weechat-core on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-core on Debian 9.
What is weechat-core
weechat-core is:
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light chat client for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard.
This package provides core plugins and locales files for WeeChat. It currently ships the following plugins: alias, xfer, irc, charset and logger. It is useless without weechat-curses.
There are three methods to install weechat-core on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install weechat-core Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install weechat-core using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install weechat-core
Install weechat-core Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install weechat-core using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install weechat-core
Install weechat-core 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 weechat-core using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install weechat-core
How To Uninstall weechat-core on Debian 9
To uninstall only the weechat-core package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove weechat-core
Uninstall weechat-core And Its Dependencies
To uninstall weechat-core and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove weechat-core
Remove weechat-core Configurations and Data
To remove weechat-core configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge weechat-core
Remove weechat-core configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove weechat-core configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge weechat-core
Dependencies
weechat-core have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-core package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.