How To Install sugarplum on Debian 10

Learn how to install sugarplum on Debian 10 with this tutorial. sugarplum is automated and intelligent spam trap/cache-poisoner

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sugarplum on Debian 10.

What is sugarplum

sugarplum is:

Sugarplum is an automated spam-poisoner. Its purpose is to feed realistic and enticing, but totally useless or hazardous data to wandering address harvesters such as EmailSiphon, Cherry Picker, etc. The idea is to so contaminate spammers’ databases as to require that they be discarded, or at least that all data retrieved from your site (including actual email addresses) be removed.

Sugarplum employs a combination of Apache’s mod_rewrite URL rewriting rules and perl code. It combines several anti-spambot tactics, includling fictitious (but RFC822-compliant) email address poisoning, injection with the addresses of known spammers (let them all spam each other), deterministic output, and “teergrube” spamtrap addressing.

There are three methods to install sugarplum 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 sugarplum Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install sugarplum

Install sugarplum Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install sugarplum using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sugarplum

Install sugarplum 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 sugarplum using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sugarplum

How To Uninstall sugarplum on Debian 10

To uninstall only the sugarplum package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sugarplum

Uninstall sugarplum And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sugarplum

Remove sugarplum Configurations and Data

To remove sugarplum configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sugarplum

Remove sugarplum configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove sugarplum configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sugarplum

Dependencies

sugarplum have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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