How To Install cyrus-murder on Debian 10

Learn how to install cyrus-murder on Debian 10 with this tutorial. cyrus-murder is Cyrus mail system - proxies and aggregator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-murder on Debian 10.

What is cyrus-murder

cyrus-murder is:

This package contains the Cyrus IMAPd suite murder aggregator system, i.e. IMAP, POP3 and LMTP proxies, and the mupdate mailbox master daemon. It allows for cluster setups where there are many backend Cyrus spools and frontend proxy servers.

For more information, please see the cyrus-common package.

There are three methods to install cyrus-murder 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 cyrus-murder Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cyrus-murder

Install cyrus-murder Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cyrus-murder

Install cyrus-murder 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 cyrus-murder using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cyrus-murder

How To Uninstall cyrus-murder on Debian 10

To uninstall only the cyrus-murder package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cyrus-murder

Uninstall cyrus-murder And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cyrus-murder and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cyrus-murder

Remove cyrus-murder Configurations and Data

To remove cyrus-murder configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cyrus-murder

Remove cyrus-murder configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cyrus-murder

Dependencies

cyrus-murder have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-murder package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.