How To Install weechat-lua on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-lua
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is weechat-lua
weechat-lua 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 the Lua scripting API plugin.
There are three methods to install weechat-lua
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install weechat-lua 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-lua
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install weechat-lua
Install weechat-lua Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install weechat-lua
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install weechat-lua
Install weechat-lua 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 weechat-lua
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install weechat-lua
How To Uninstall weechat-lua on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the weechat-lua
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove weechat-lua
Uninstall weechat-lua And Its Dependencies
To uninstall weechat-lua
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove weechat-lua
Remove weechat-lua Configurations and Data
To remove weechat-lua
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge weechat-lua
Remove weechat-lua configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove weechat-lua
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge weechat-lua
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-lua
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.