How To Install mailutils-doc on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailutils-doc
on Debian 12.
What is mailutils-doc
mailutils-doc is:
GNU Mailutils is a rich and powerful protocol-independent mail framework. It contains a series of useful mail libraries, clients, and servers.
This package contains the documentation for the mailutils utilities and development API.
There are three methods to install mailutils-doc
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mailutils-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mailutils-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mailutils-doc
Install mailutils-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mailutils-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mailutils-doc
Install mailutils-doc 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 mailutils-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mailutils-doc
How To Uninstall mailutils-doc on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mailutils-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mailutils-doc
Uninstall mailutils-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mailutils-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mailutils-doc
Remove mailutils-doc Configurations and Data
To remove mailutils-doc
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mailutils-doc
Remove mailutils-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mailutils-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mailutils-doc
Dependencies
mailutils-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailutils-doc
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.