How To Install bogofilter on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter on Debian 9. bogofilter is fast Bayesian spam filter (dummy package)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter on Debian 9.

What is bogofilter

bogofilter is:

This package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article “A Plan For Spam”.

This version substantially improves on Paul’s proposal by doing smarter lexical analysis. In particular, hostnames and IP addresses are retained as recognition features rather than broken up. Various kinds of MTA cruft such as dates and message-IDs are discarded so as not to bloat the word lists.

There are three methods to install bogofilter on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bogofilter Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bogofilter

Install bogofilter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bogofilter

Install bogofilter 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 bogofilter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bogofilter

How To Uninstall bogofilter on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove bogofilter

Uninstall bogofilter And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bogofilter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bogofilter

Remove bogofilter Configurations and Data

To remove bogofilter configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bogofilter

Remove bogofilter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bogofilter

Dependencies

bogofilter have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.