How To Install opendkim-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install opendkim-tools on Debian 9.
What is opendkim-tools
opendkim-tools is:
The OpenDKIM Project is a community effort to develop and maintain a C library for producing DKIM-aware applications and an open source milter for providing DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) service.
This package contains command line tools for the OpenDKIM mail filter (Milter). The following tools are included:
- opendkim-genkey
- miltertest
- opendkim-stats
- opendkim-genzone
- opendkim-spam
- opendkim-testkey
- opendkim-atpszone
- opendkim-convert-keylist
- opendkim-testmsg
There are three methods to install opendkim-tools 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 opendkim-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install opendkim-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install opendkim-tools
Install opendkim-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install opendkim-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install opendkim-tools
Install opendkim-tools 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 opendkim-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install opendkim-tools
How To Uninstall opendkim-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the opendkim-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove opendkim-tools
Uninstall opendkim-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall opendkim-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove opendkim-tools
Remove opendkim-tools Configurations and Data
To remove opendkim-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge opendkim-tools
Remove opendkim-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove opendkim-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opendkim-tools
Dependencies
opendkim-tools have the following dependencies:
- libbsd0
- libc6
- libdb5.3
- libldap-2.4-2
- liblua5.1-0
- libmemcached11
- libmemcachedutil2
- libopendbx1
- libopendkim11
- librbl1
- libssl1.1
- libunbound2
- libvbr2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install opendkim-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
