How To Install claws-mail-plugins on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install claws-mail-plugins
on Debian 9.
What is claws-mail-plugins
claws-mail-plugins is:
This is a metapackage to install core plugin packages provided by the Claws Mail sources. Historically these were the only plugins provided along with Claws Mail itself.
See the claws-mail-extra-plugins package for more plugins.
There are three methods to install claws-mail-plugins
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 claws-mail-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install claws-mail-plugins
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install claws-mail-plugins
Install claws-mail-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install claws-mail-plugins
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install claws-mail-plugins
Install claws-mail-plugins 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 claws-mail-plugins
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install claws-mail-plugins
How To Uninstall claws-mail-plugins on Debian 9
To uninstall only the claws-mail-plugins
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove claws-mail-plugins
Uninstall claws-mail-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall claws-mail-plugins
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove claws-mail-plugins
Remove claws-mail-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove claws-mail-plugins
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge claws-mail-plugins
Remove claws-mail-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove claws-mail-plugins
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge claws-mail-plugins
Dependencies
claws-mail-plugins have the following dependencies:
- claws-mail-spamassassin
- claws-mail-pgpmime
- claws-mail-pgpinline
- claws-mail-bogofilter
- claws-mail-smime-plugin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install claws-mail-plugins
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.