How To Install libircclient1 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 libircclient1 on Ubuntu.
What is libircclient1
libircclient1 is:
libircclient is a small but powerful library that implements the client-server IRC protocol. It is designed to be small, fast, portable and compatible to RFC standards, and most IRC clients. libircclient features include:
- Full multi-threading support.
- Single threads handles all the IRC processing.
- Support for single-threaded applications, and socket-based applications, which use select()
- Synchronous and asynchronous interfaces.
- CTCP support with optional build-in reply code.
- Flexible DCC support, including both DCC chat, and DCC file transfer.
- Can both initiate and react to initiated DCC.
- Can accept or decline DCC sessions asynchronously.
- Plain C interface and implementation (possible to use from C++ code, obviously)
- Compatible with RFC 1459 and most IRC clients.
- Good documentation and examples available.
There are three methods to install libircclient1 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 libircclient1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libircclient1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libircclient1
Install libircclient1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libircclient1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libircclient1
Install libircclient1 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 libircclient1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libircclient1
How To Uninstall libircclient1 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libircclient1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libircclient1
Uninstall libircclient1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libircclient1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libircclient1
Remove libircclient1 Configurations and Data
To remove libircclient1 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libircclient1
Remove libircclient1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libircclient1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libircclient1
Dependencies
libircclient1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libircclient1 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.