How To Install iptux on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install iptux on Ubuntu.

What is `iptux`

iptux is:

iptux is an “IP Messenger” client for Linux.

It can:

auto-detect other clients on the intranet.
send message to other clients.
send file to other clients.

It is (supposedly) compatible with 飞鸽传书 (Feige) and 飞秋 (FeiQ) from China, and with the original “IP Messenger” clients from Japan as listed on http://ipmsg.org/ including g2ipmsg and xipmsg in Debian.

There are three methods to install iptux on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install iptux Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install iptux

Install iptux Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install iptux

Install iptux 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 iptux using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install iptux

How To Uninstall iptux on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove iptux

Uninstall iptux And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove iptux

Remove iptux Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge iptux

Remove iptux configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge iptux

Dependencies

iptux have the following dependencies:

References

iptux website

Summary

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