How To Install dovecot-auth-lua on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-auth-lua
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is dovecot-auth-lua
dovecot-auth-lua is:
Dovecot is a mail server whose major goals are security and extreme reliability. It tries very hard to handle all error conditions and verify that all data is valid, making it nearly impossible to crash. It supports mbox/Maildir and its own dbox/mdbox formats, and should also be pretty fast, extensible, and portable.
This package contains an authentication plugin allowing password and user databases to be implemented in Lua.
There are three methods to install dovecot-auth-lua
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dovecot-auth-lua Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dovecot-auth-lua
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dovecot-auth-lua
Install dovecot-auth-lua Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dovecot-auth-lua
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dovecot-auth-lua
Install dovecot-auth-lua 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install dovecot-auth-lua
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dovecot-auth-lua
How To Uninstall dovecot-auth-lua on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the dovecot-auth-lua
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dovecot-auth-lua
Uninstall dovecot-auth-lua And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dovecot-auth-lua
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dovecot-auth-lua
Remove dovecot-auth-lua Configurations and Data
To remove dovecot-auth-lua
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dovecot-auth-lua
Remove dovecot-auth-lua configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dovecot-auth-lua
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dovecot-auth-lua
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-auth-lua
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.