How To Install weechat-headless on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-headless
on Debian 11.
What is weechat-headless
weechat-headless 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. It is customizable and extensible with plugins/scripts, and includes:
- support of IRC protocol (native)
- support of XMPP/Jabber protocol (with additional script)
- nicklist
- smart hotlist
- horizontal and vertical split
- double charset support (decode/encode)
- FIFO pipe for remote control
- 256 colors support
- incremental text search
- dynamic filtering of buffer content
- Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme and PHP scripting
- script manager
- spell checking
- highly customizable and extensible
- and much more!
This package provides the headless client.
There are three methods to install weechat-headless
on Debian 11. 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-headless 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-headless
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install weechat-headless
Install weechat-headless Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install weechat-headless
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install weechat-headless
Install weechat-headless 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-headless
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install weechat-headless
How To Uninstall weechat-headless on Debian 11
To uninstall only the weechat-headless
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove weechat-headless
Uninstall weechat-headless And Its Dependencies
To uninstall weechat-headless
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove weechat-headless
Remove weechat-headless Configurations and Data
To remove weechat-headless
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge weechat-headless
Remove weechat-headless configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove weechat-headless
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge weechat-headless
Dependencies
weechat-headless have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-headless
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.