How To Install fqterm on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fqterm
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is fqterm
fqterm is:
FQTerm is one of the most widely used BBS client in China, it supports Telnet/SSH1/SSH2 protocols and can process ANSI control sequences. It can be used to login BBS sites or *NIX hosts.
Almost all the BBSes in Greater China Region are in BIG5 or GBK encoding. So FQTerm only support these two encodings and ASCII.
There are three methods to install fqterm
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fqterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fqterm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fqterm
Install fqterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fqterm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fqterm
Install fqterm 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 fqterm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fqterm
How To Uninstall fqterm on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the fqterm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fqterm
Uninstall fqterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fqterm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fqterm
Remove fqterm Configurations and Data
To remove fqterm
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fqterm
Remove fqterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fqterm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fqterm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fqterm
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.