Complete Guide: Installing xchat on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) 2024

1. Install "xchat" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install xchat on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "xchat" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall xchat on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                xchat
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the xchat package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: xchat
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.8.8-15
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Gianfranco Costamagna
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 983
Provides: irc
Depends: xchat-common (= 2.8.8-15), libc6 (>= 2.14), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libgtkspell0 (>= 2.0.10), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libperl5.26 (>= 5.26.0~rc1), libpython2.7 (>= 2.7), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libtcl8.6 (>= 8.6.0), libx11-6
Recommends: esound-clients | alsa-utils, libnotify4 | libnotify-bin, xchat-indicator, xdg-utils
Filename: pool/universe/x/xchat/xchat_2.8.8-15_amd64.deb
Size: 318404
MD5sum: 76c715ff57108f81aa918ebb450363d5
SHA1: 7e69672f13cacb6da2cf1c99e3b0078fa172514f
SHA256: 57e68650827438cc734d8e0b82bd4924b4cfb1fab7646a449ef427a832267f6f
Homepage: http://www.xchat.org/
Description: IRC client for X similar to AmIRC
Description-md5: 0370c60ddc73ff6adff8453648bc7334