How To Install dovecot-gssapi on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-gssapi
on Debian 9.
What is dovecot-gssapi
dovecot-gssapi 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 provides GSSAPI authentication support for Dovecot.
There are three methods to install dovecot-gssapi
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 dovecot-gssapi 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-gssapi
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dovecot-gssapi
Install dovecot-gssapi Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dovecot-gssapi
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dovecot-gssapi
Install dovecot-gssapi 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 dovecot-gssapi
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dovecot-gssapi
How To Uninstall dovecot-gssapi on Debian 9
To uninstall only the dovecot-gssapi
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dovecot-gssapi
Uninstall dovecot-gssapi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dovecot-gssapi
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dovecot-gssapi
Remove dovecot-gssapi Configurations and Data
To remove dovecot-gssapi
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dovecot-gssapi
Remove dovecot-gssapi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dovecot-gssapi
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dovecot-gssapi
Dependencies
dovecot-gssapi have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-gssapi
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.