How To Install bld on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bld
on Debian 10.
What is bld
bld is:
BLD stands for “black list daemon” and is intended to build blacklists using simple rules based on a maximum number of submissions of the same IP address during a minimum time interval. BLD was primarily designed to fight against dictionary-based spams (by making the MTA report to BLD any host that tries to send a mail to an unknown user) but can be used by any application that needs a blacklist based on connection rate limits.
This package contains the server.
There are three methods to install bld
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bld Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bld
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bld
Install bld Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bld
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bld
Install bld 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bld
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bld
How To Uninstall bld on Debian 10
To uninstall only the bld
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bld
Uninstall bld And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bld
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bld
Remove bld Configurations and Data
To remove bld
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bld
Remove bld configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bld
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bld
Dependencies
bld have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bld
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.