How To Install oysttyer 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 oysttyer on Ubuntu.
What is oysttyer
oysttyer is:
An interactive console text-based command-line Twitter client written in Perl.
This is a fork of ttytter.
There are three methods to install oysttyer 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 oysttyer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install oysttyer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install oysttyer
Install oysttyer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install oysttyer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install oysttyer
Install oysttyer 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 oysttyer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install oysttyer
How To Uninstall oysttyer on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the oysttyer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove oysttyer
Uninstall oysttyer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall oysttyer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove oysttyer
Remove oysttyer Configurations and Data
To remove oysttyer configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge oysttyer
Remove oysttyer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove oysttyer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oysttyer
Dependencies
oysttyer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install oysttyer package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.