How To Install qmail-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qmail-tools on Debian 9.
What is qmail-tools
qmail-tools is:
This package contains tools that are useful when running the Debian qmail packages, such as queue-repair, which deals with the qmail queue, and tools that help upgrading from previously existing qmail Debian packages, those in Debian/non-free, and the unofficial ones from smarden.org.
There are three methods to install qmail-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 qmail-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 qmail-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qmail-tools
Install qmail-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qmail-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qmail-tools
Install qmail-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 qmail-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qmail-tools
How To Uninstall qmail-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the qmail-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qmail-tools
Uninstall qmail-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qmail-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qmail-tools
Remove qmail-tools Configurations and Data
To remove qmail-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qmail-tools
Remove qmail-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qmail-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qmail-tools
Dependencies
qmail-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qmail-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
