How To Install ircii on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ircii
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ircii
ircii is:
The ircII program is a full screen, termcap based interface to Internet Relay Chat. It gives full access to all of the normal IRC functions, plus a variety of additional options. This Version is able to display mIRC colors. It supports “/encrypt -cast”
There are three methods to install ircii
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 ircii Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ircii
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ircii
Install ircii Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ircii
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ircii
Install ircii 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 ircii
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ircii
How To Uninstall ircii on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ircii
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ircii
Uninstall ircii And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ircii
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ircii
Remove ircii Configurations and Data
To remove ircii
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ircii
Remove ircii configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ircii
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ircii
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ircii
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.