How To Install mailman-api on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailman-api
on Debian 9.
What is mailman-api
mailman-api is:
mailman-api provides a daemon that will listen to HTTP requests, providing access to a REST API that can be used to interact with a locally-installed Mailman instance.
There are three methods to install mailman-api
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 mailman-api Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mailman-api
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mailman-api
Install mailman-api Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mailman-api
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mailman-api
Install mailman-api 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 mailman-api
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mailman-api
How To Uninstall mailman-api on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mailman-api
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mailman-api
Uninstall mailman-api And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mailman-api
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mailman-api
Remove mailman-api Configurations and Data
To remove mailman-api
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mailman-api
Remove mailman-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mailman-api
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mailman-api
Dependencies
mailman-api have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailman-api
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.