How To Install geximon on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geximon
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is geximon
geximon is:
geximon is a Gtk2 reimplementation of eximon, an X monitor for the exim mail transport agent. It has all features of the original (tracking the log, managing the mail queue, plotting, etc.) and more. It also integrates with exiwhat (allowing you to manage active exim instances), exigrep, and eximstats. The interface is intuitive, compact, and easy to use.
There are three methods to install geximon
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install geximon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install geximon
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geximon
Install geximon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install geximon
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geximon
Install geximon 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 geximon
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geximon
How To Uninstall geximon on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the geximon
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geximon
Uninstall geximon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geximon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geximon
Remove geximon Configurations and Data
To remove geximon
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geximon
Remove geximon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geximon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geximon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geximon
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.