How To Install plum on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install plum on Ubuntu 22.04. plum is IRC proxy, stationing, logging, and bot program (pirc)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plum on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is plum

plum is:

plum works as personal proxy, stationing, logging, and bot program on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). It has many modules, so the user can use a lot of functions. It is also easy to customize its configurations. Note that its documents are only available in Japanese.

There are three methods to install plum 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 plum Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install plum using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install plum

Install plum Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install plum using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install plum

Install plum 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 plum using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plum

How To Uninstall plum on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the plum package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove plum

Uninstall plum And Its Dependencies

To uninstall plum and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plum

Remove plum Configurations and Data

To remove plum configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge plum

Remove plum configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove plum configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plum

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plum package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.