How To Install sa-compile on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sa-compile
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is sa-compile
sa-compile is:
sa-compile uses “re2c” to compile the site-wide parts of the SpamAssassin ruleset into C code for more efficient processing by spamd or spamassassin.
Package: sa-compile Architecture: all Version: 3.4.4-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: mail Source: spamassassin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Noah Meyerhans [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 97 Depends: spamassassin, re2c, gcc, libc6-dev, make Enhances: spamassassin Filename: pool/main/s/spamassassin/sa-compile_3.4.4-1ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 13896 MD5sum: b9e4dd355f3da45741a27a2800fd59da SHA1: 37fd28c21c5f21d977f7e1b1f88fa52df656dbb4 SHA256: 7ab703002ed5f59e5aac375a44166e0cb7bd96ed7f635e204ebb31748a2557f6 Homepage: https://www.spamassassin.org/ Description-en: Tools for compiling SpamAssassin rules into C sa-compile uses “re2c” to compile the site-wide parts of the SpamAssassin ruleset into C code for more efficient processing by spamd or spamassassin.
There are three methods to install sa-compile
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sa-compile Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sa-compile
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sa-compile
Install sa-compile Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sa-compile
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sa-compile
Install sa-compile 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install sa-compile
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sa-compile
How To Uninstall sa-compile on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the sa-compile
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sa-compile
Uninstall sa-compile And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sa-compile
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sa-compile
Remove sa-compile Configurations and Data
To remove sa-compile
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sa-compile
Remove sa-compile configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sa-compile
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sa-compile
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sa-compile
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.