How To Install mew-beta-bin on Debian 10

Learn how to install mew-beta-bin on Debian 10 with this tutorial. mew-beta-bin is external commands for Mew (development version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mew-beta-bin on Debian 10.

What is mew-beta-bin

mew-beta-bin is:

The mew-beta-bin package contains external commands for the mew-beta package.

  • mewencode: encode/decode MIME objects
  • mewl: extract necessary fields from messages stored in folders
  • incm: incorporate new mails from maildir or mbox to Mew’s inbox folder
  • mewest: update indexes of Hyper Estraier
  • mew-pinentry: front end of gpg-agent to ask a passphrase to a user
  • mewstunnel: wrapper script for using stunnel
  • cmew: create Mew’s database file
  • smew: search related messages from Mew’s database file

There are three methods to install mew-beta-bin on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mew-beta-bin Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mew-beta-bin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mew-beta-bin

Install mew-beta-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mew-beta-bin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mew-beta-bin

Install mew-beta-bin 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 mew-beta-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mew-beta-bin

How To Uninstall mew-beta-bin on Debian 10

To uninstall only the mew-beta-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mew-beta-bin

Uninstall mew-beta-bin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mew-beta-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mew-beta-bin

Remove mew-beta-bin Configurations and Data

To remove mew-beta-bin configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mew-beta-bin

Remove mew-beta-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mew-beta-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mew-beta-bin

Dependencies

mew-beta-bin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mew-beta-bin package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.