How To Install quassel-core on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel-core on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is quassel-core
quassel-core is:
Quassel is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one or more clients can attach to and detach from the central core. It’s much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat or irssi, but graphical.
This package provides only the core component.
Package: quassel-core Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:0.13.1-3ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/net Source: quassel Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian KDE Extras Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2748 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libqca-qt5-2 (>= 2.0.2), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5network5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5script5 (>= 5.6.0~beta), libqt5sql5 (>= 5.3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), adduser, libqt5sql5-sqlite, lsb-base (>= 3.2-14), openssl Suggests: libqt5sql5-psql Filename: pool/universe/q/quassel/quassel-core_0.13.1-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 763924 MD5sum: 8647d61487d2aa006df29474c54199f2 SHA1: d39bc2d2ffa3d3e56ccd36afba8549665782bd9f SHA256: 65fa0437de3d4656233eb27197638bc5750d7656489273a2c3f3015a72ccd2ad Homepage: https://www.quassel-irc.org/ Description-en: distributed IRC client - core component Quassel is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one or more clients can attach to and detach from the central core. It’s much like the popular combination of screen and a text-based IRC client such as WeeChat or irssi, but graphical.
This package provides only the core component.
There are three methods to install quassel-core 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 quassel-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 quassel-core using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install quassel-core
Install quassel-core Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install quassel-core using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install quassel-core
Install quassel-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install quassel-core using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install quassel-core
How To Uninstall quassel-core on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the quassel-core package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove quassel-core
Uninstall quassel-core And Its Dependencies
To uninstall quassel-core and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove quassel-core
Remove quassel-core Configurations and Data
To remove quassel-core configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge quassel-core
Remove quassel-core configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove quassel-core configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quassel-core
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quassel-core package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
